Setsubun!
２月３日、日本は節分です。
いろんな神社さんで節分祭をやっているので行ってきました！
まずは２日３日と二日間にわたって豆まきをする八坂神社さんへ。
On February 3. Japan is SETSUBUN (traditional end of winter and the day before the beginning of spring).
In many Shinto shrines do traditional SETSUBUN festival.
I went for a festival.
At first I went to Yasaka-Shrine which Bean-Throwing Ceremony for two days on 2nd and 3rd.
まずは本殿前の舞台で舞の奉納です。
It is KAGURA (god-entertainment, the dedication of the dance to God.) on the stage in front of the main shrine.
舞妓さんや芸妓さんも舞を。はぁ〜うっとり。。。
Maiko-san and Geiko-san danced, too.
I was enchanted by their beauty...!
舞の奉納が終わると舞台上から豆まきです。まかれる豆は小袋に数十粒ずつ炒り大豆が入っています。
When the dedication of the dance is over, They scattering fortune beans from the stage.
The fortune beans are dozens of Roasted soybeans in the small sack.
うわあああん、舞妓さんかわいいい！芸妓さんきれいい！
Maiko-san is pretty! Geiko-san is beautiful!
ものすごい争奪戦の中、あめゆは頑張ってなんと福豆を９つもゲットしました！
In an intense scramble, I got nine parched fortune beans!
↑ゲットした福豆はお友達と家族で分けて食べたので全部写ってないんだけども。
橙色の福豆袋は八坂神社さんの境内で３００円で戴ける富くじ（ハズレ無し）付きの福豆です。
あめゆは「黒豆と栗きんとんの生八つ橋」が当たりましたよ！結構うれしい♪
I shared several of the parched fortune beans which got with a friend and families.
The orange parched beans bag is lottery parched beans to be able to buy for 300 yen
in the precincts of Yasaka-Shrine.
I won a traditional Japanese confectionery
"NAMA-YATSUHASHI made with a black soybean and marron paste"!
I am considerably glad ♪
おみくじも引いたんですが、一番が出ました。おお〜産まれて初めてだ！
八雲立つ〜うんちゃらかんちゃらって書いてました。
もちろんおめでたい大吉！
And I did a OMIKUJI (sacred lots = fortunes written on strips of paper).
The number of the sacred lottery which I got was the number 1!
I look number 1 of the Omikuji for the first time.
Of course it is Great blessing! stupid Dai-kichi! :D
あまりに寒かったので帰りにあったか〜い甘酒を飲みました。
斜め横の席では舞台を応援に来ていた舞妓さんたちも甘酒を飲んでいましたよ。
本当に寒かったもんね。あああああ、舞妓さんかわいいい〜ん！
Because I was very cold, I drank warm AMAZAKE(sweet alcoholic drink made from sake lees) on the way.
The maiko-san who came for support on the stage drank AMAZAKE to a chair of the diagonal next to me.
maiko-san is pretty! :)
そして節分本番の３日は下鴨神社の節分祭へ！
And I will go tomorrow to Setsubun of Shimogamo-Shrine.
いろんな神社さんで節分祭をやっているので行ってきました！
まずは２日３日と二日間にわたって豆まきをする八坂神社さんへ。
On February 3. Japan is SETSUBUN (traditional end of winter and the day before the beginning of spring).
In many Shinto shrines do traditional SETSUBUN festival.
I went for a festival.
At first I went to Yasaka-Shrine which Bean-Throwing Ceremony for two days on 2nd and 3rd.
まずは本殿前の舞台で舞の奉納です。
It is KAGURA (god-entertainment, the dedication of the dance to God.) on the stage in front of the main shrine.
舞妓さんや芸妓さんも舞を。はぁ〜うっとり。。。
Maiko-san and Geiko-san danced, too.
I was enchanted by their beauty...!
舞の奉納が終わると舞台上から豆まきです。まかれる豆は小袋に数十粒ずつ炒り大豆が入っています。
When the dedication of the dance is over, They scattering fortune beans from the stage.
The fortune beans are dozens of Roasted soybeans in the small sack.
うわあああん、舞妓さんかわいいい！芸妓さんきれいい！
Maiko-san is pretty! Geiko-san is beautiful!
ものすごい争奪戦の中、あめゆは頑張ってなんと福豆を９つもゲットしました！
In an intense scramble, I got nine parched fortune beans!
↑ゲットした福豆はお友達と家族で分けて食べたので全部写ってないんだけども。
橙色の福豆袋は八坂神社さんの境内で３００円で戴ける富くじ（ハズレ無し）付きの福豆です。
あめゆは「黒豆と栗きんとんの生八つ橋」が当たりましたよ！結構うれしい♪
I shared several of the parched fortune beans which got with a friend and families.
The orange parched beans bag is lottery parched beans to be able to buy for 300 yen
in the precincts of Yasaka-Shrine.
I won a traditional Japanese confectionery
"NAMA-YATSUHASHI made with a black soybean and marron paste"!
I am considerably glad ♪
おみくじも引いたんですが、一番が出ました。おお〜産まれて初めてだ！
八雲立つ〜うんちゃらかんちゃらって書いてました。
もちろんおめでたい大吉！
And I did a OMIKUJI (sacred lots = fortunes written on strips of paper).
The number of the sacred lottery which I got was the number 1!
I look number 1 of the Omikuji for the first time.
Of course it is Great blessing! stupid Dai-kichi! :D
あまりに寒かったので帰りにあったか〜い甘酒を飲みました。
斜め横の席では舞台を応援に来ていた舞妓さんたちも甘酒を飲んでいましたよ。
本当に寒かったもんね。あああああ、舞妓さんかわいいい〜ん！
Because I was very cold, I drank warm AMAZAKE(sweet alcoholic drink made from sake lees) on the way.
The maiko-san who came for support on the stage drank AMAZAKE to a chair of the diagonal next to me.
maiko-san is pretty! :)
そして節分本番の３日は下鴨神社の節分祭へ！
And I will go tomorrow to Setsubun of Shimogamo-Shrine.