Japan's Su-mo

     Su-mo is sport to have history more than 1500 years ago. Now, It was representive

 sport of Japan from early 20th century. It was recoded in 642 A.D.  It was event that

 predicted bumper year  or reqeusted meaning of god.



     Meanwhile, It had become court ceremony in early 9th century and

had character of effective martial arts as warrior political power. After then, Su-mo

became known a performance on ancestral ritual formalities. And it became a performance

that was commercialized as a spectacle of world people




      Today, Su-mo event held in sixth a year. It took place in Don-gyung on Jan ,

 May and Sept. Also, It did in Osaka on March and did in Nagoya on July and

 did in Hukuoka on November. Start of competition took place second Sunday

on odd month and is ened on forth Sunday.

Japan's Gya-ru Make-up

Gya-ru is one of the Jpan's Fashion cultures. Japan's women that do dakr eye makeup or

tanning and hair, fashion style is fancy  is called as Gya-ru. Gya-ru is formed by

changing English word; 'girl' that means 'the girl' as Japan's pronunciation. When do mark it,

Gata-kana is used to mark it or write on 'gal' . Gya-ru style is typically tanning skin and

eye-makeup to draw it as wirtely and fancy clothes sticked in body.  

Gya-ru fashion to started in 1990, Japan has orginally feature that do makeup

 face to be scorched with drawing white shadow in eye , noise and lip. 

It was tighten as Amuro-Namie that is high school student singer start it in japan.

And it was trend. Now it become pronoun of  japan's girl fashion .

Japan's Dadami

     Dadami have meaning to folding something  and  it is called as Chup in Japan .

Dadami is made by attaching Dan that around a rope in circumference.

Dan is made as uning Myng-ju, Sam-be, Mu-myung. Color is almost simple style such

 as brown, black, so on. There are also to dye it and squeeze it putting on some pattern.

 It is made by using old newspaper  and color paper as Dan's wick.

Japan's Gabuki

    It is Gabuki of Japan's traditional culture. Up to now, It continue about 400 years

starting as a ordinary person entertainment in Ae-do era. 

Ga-buki originally means verbe as having an affair with someone to be a none.

In a early morden time, The etertainment called as Huryu-odori is fashion with religion

 ceremony called as Goruy-E. As backgrouding it, It have been origined as woman

called as O-kuni sang and danced in Kyo-to.

     Woman's Gabu-ki  was  famous from the public. But because it was too sensul,

Edo-Bakuhu completely made appearance of woman ban in a reason as public morals in 1629.

And then, It appeard to Gabuki that beautiful younger boys played the dance and  the circus.

     Because of that, Gabuki have reached by now after changing as a various course.

Gabuki have been the general play under the support of the public in Japan. Therefore

 the actor or actress was an object of unconditional popularity. And  then, that job have

become a authoritaive work that have been continued as a something handed in a family

or  a handing down from generation to generation.

Japan's Traditional Festival : Hina-Machuri

        It is japan's traditional fasitival that pray good health and long life of girls.

Its name is Hina-machuri. It held  in March third every year. Hina is orginate play with

 Hina doll that have held  since early 17 century in Japan. There is Momo-seku because

peach blossom before and after March third and On-nano-seku that means

 festival of daughter.



It  has veen estimated as settling trditional event since 17 century  because the festival

 that  had held preventing event in China is combined with Japan's Hina doll play.

Before  few day that the day been begun, All family that have younger daughter put up

wonderful Hina doll, peach and peach blossom so on under the table covered

with red material.


Its form is vary various according to kind and amount of Hina doll from 2 tables to 8 tables.

It is located in order of  the Japanese emperor and empress, a court lady, musician,

court officer so on. But it is different from area. In the day, all family share a food

each other. After ending event, they clean the table. There is a custom that if  food isn't

shared with family and table isn't cleaned, one's daughter marry too late.

Traditional Clothes of Japan

    I inform you of Japan's traditonal clothes. Its name is U-kata. It is in Japan as Han-bok is

in Korea. Also U-kata and Gimono is widely known by Japan's taditional colthe.

But they are different from method of wearing it to its quality of the material.



     U-kata was weared after bath or, you can understand it is concept of ordinary clothes

when is Hanabe or Bong-O-dory that is kinds of Japan's traditional festivals.

Gimono is made by silk fabrics and have a lot of embroidery and

dyeing that need to lots of effort mading it. So it is very expensive and it is known

by wering it when there is wedding , graduation, and  coming-of-age day.




     How to wear U-kata is putting on it and adjusting its dress. Then, after

setting length by folding colthe in position of waist, tie it by string.

After that,  if you decorate it as O-bi, it is OK!

Traditional Food of Japan

  I inform you of Nat-to that is one of the Japan's traditional foods. This picture is Nat-to.

 Nat-to is made by many beans.  Its origin is that Japanese ate beans came from

China  in the end of Japan's Jyumon ara with boiling them. If boiling beans laid

about ten million of Nat-to germs that bond in rice straw, it coming in to effect and

the sticky Nat-to was completed. Before that time, Japanese ate Nat-to covering

with rice straw.




Nat-to's effect is helpful to prevent from dementia. and It protect to the osteoporosis

 because it help not to be missing the calcium in a bone. Also, It help to maintain a blood

vessel smoothly because of  falling the cholesterol. and It has affirmative effect that do

 prevention of age and the arteriosclerois.



There are  A-ma Nat-to, Ittobiky Nat-to so on in the kind of Nat-to. People usually

know Ittobiky Nat-to thinking sticky Nat-to.  A-ma Nat-to is what boil down with

the sugar, and it is strong taste of  the sugar.