Meiji Jingu Tournament

Japanese: 明治神宮大会 - めいじじんぐうたいかい
Meiji Jingu Tournament
A national athletics tournament held annually or every other year for 20 years from 1924 to 1943, with the main venue being the Meiji Jingu Gaien Stadium in Tokyo. The first tournament took place over five days from October 30th, with 3,144 athletes participating. However, the name was changed from the original "Meiji Jingu Athletic Tournament" to the "Meiji Jingu Athletic Tournament" for the third tournament in 1926, and then to the "Meiji Jingu National Athletic Tournament" from the 10th tournament in 1939, and finally to the "Meiji Jingu National Training Tournament" for the 13th tournament in 1942 and the 14th tournament in 1943.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
1924年から43年までの20年間,東京の明治神宮外苑競技場を主会場として毎年あるいは1年おきに開催された国家的な総合体育大会。第1回大会は,10月30日から5日間,参加選手3144人によって開催された。ただし名称は最初の〈明治神宮競技大会〉を,1926年の第3回大会に〈明治神宮体育大会〉と改称し,さらに39年の第10回大会からは〈明治神宮国民体育大会〉,末期の42年第13回大会および43年の第14回大会は〈明治神宮国民錬成大会〉と改称した。

出典 株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について 情報

<<:  Meiji Newspaper and Magazine Library

>>:  Meiji Shrine Outer Garden

Recommend

Aa lava - Aayogan (English spelling)

A type of surface form of basalt-andesitic lava. I...

Ural Studies

The Uralic language family is a collective term f...

Indirect flame furnace

...Also called an indirect flame furnace. A furna...

Cold agglutination

This is a method to detect cold agglutinin, an ant...

Kaiwajo - Kaiwajo

The person with the highest authority as a precept...

Calcium oxide - sankakarushiumu (English spelling) calcium oxide

A compound of calcium and oxygen. It is also call...

Imperial Rescript on Education

…an imperial rescript by Emperor Meiji issued on ...

The Best Years of Our Lives

American film. 1946. Directed by William Wyler. A...

Darioconus gloriamaris (English spelling) Darioconusgloriamaris

…[Tadashige Nabe]. . … *Some of the terminology t...

Narodniki (English spelling) народники/narodniki Russian

The intelligentsia played a leading role in the R...

Memorial Hall - Kinendo

…Christian architecture consists of churches (cat...

Legrenzi, Giovanni

Born: August 12, 1626, Clusone Died May 26, 1690. ...

Elephant - elephant

〘Noun〙① The shape of an object. The figure of a pe...

Spotted scorpion (Isometrus europaeus)

An arthropod (illustration) of the Arachnidae fami...

Yamakunigawa River

A river that flows through the northwestern part ...