21th
May (Sunday) 2017, Mifune festival was held in Arashiyama. There were so many
people so it was hard to watch it. Fortunately I had made reservation for lunch
so we could enjoy the festival procession from the second floor of restaurant.
The
woman on the palanquin played the rule of Sei Shonagon, a famous author who
lived around the year 1000. She was wearing “jūnihitoe” which means "twelve-layer
robe” in Japanese. Considering the hot and humid weather of that day…wearing so
many layer robe and keeping smile face during the festival must have been hard
work.
My
guests enjoyed Tenryuji-temple and bamboo forest. After enjoying Arashiyama, we
also went to Kinkakuji temple. It is also elegant place of Ashikaga shogun who
loved aristocrat culture. Iris with the back drop of golden pavilion was so
beautiful.
As the
last destination of this day…maybe you expect other elegant place but we went
to an ordinary building located in business district. Ninja training dojo!
Ninja costumed staff showed us how to throw “Shuriken”
ninja star. What a cool man he is!
One
of my guest could throw ninja star so elegantly. She has potential to be
professional ninja. Unlike her my skill of throwing shuriken was really bad…it
hit the floor and bounded into the target. It can be tricky skill but it was just
an accident.
We
also experienced drinking Ninja sake. One of the label is “Hanzo”, the name of famous ninja from Iga. Actually this sake is
produced by local company of Iga city, the birth place of ninja.
But
how is sake associated with ninja? I read a guide book of ninja and it says
that ninja didn’t enjoy drinking. So sake was for making the enemy dead drunk
to carry out the mission. Also ninja used sake as a disinfectant on an injury.
That reminds me the movie scene of Ramboo.
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