The Gen-Ino, which celebrates the first day of the Pig in October, old calendar, is the day of the Pig on October 9th.
The Chinese folk religion that "Eating rice cakes on the day of the October Pig will not get sick" spread among the nobles during the Heian period. Because it was just the time of rice harvesting, the meaning of Harvest festival gradually became stronger and spread to rural areas. It is said that it became the “Yinoko Festival” and “Yinoko Milling” in various parts of West Japan and the “Ten Night” in East Japan. It seems that the first appearance in "The Tale of Genji" (Aoi's book) says "That night, Inokomochi"
In the Edo period, one of the castle days along with the Goshoku and Kasho was the Gen-ino celebration as one of the climbing days following the flow of this Imperial Palace event. Saito Tsukishin's "Toto Toshijiki" states "Gen-ino's celebration, during the period of various princes (around 4:00 pm). Ote-mon gate and Sakurada Gomon will be fired. It's a good time to make rice cakes. (In the samurai family, the white red rice cake is tattered in retainer, following the public example." It's somewhat funny to imagine that the daimyo and flagships who changed their clothes while the bonfire is lit and go to the castle and have a boar rice cake.
In addition, wild boars were considered "animals to prevent fire," and since they were said to be fired on this day, they opened Irori and digging tatsu from this day. In "Chanoyu", the furnace is switched from a wind furnace to a furnace, and depending on the school, the sweets at that time are "Yinokomochi".
At "Toraya", wild rice cakes are lined up in stores for one month only from November 1st.
"Toraya" was founded in Kyoto in 1586 in the late Muromachi period, and was a long-established store without an explanation that had been used for the Imperial Palace since its beginning, but entered Tokyo with the relocation of Tokyo in 1869. Opened in Ginza in 1879. The Nihonbashi store, which was disturbed, opened in 1946 as a cafe "Mikaku". Since 1948, it has been operating as a directly managed "Nihonbashi store" following Ginza. It seems that "Yinokomochi" has been made since 1999 with reference to the manufacturing method in the literature of the Kamakura period in a simple form that wraps an bean with a dough mixed with yellow flour, sesame and dried persimmon and resembles a wild boar child. .
Chrysanthemum leaves, salts, and trouts used for furnace opening. The "opening" ceremony, which makes you feel a little solemn once a year.
Thanks to the furnace, which will be taken care of for the next six months, we all had Toraya's boar rice cake.
Toraya Nihonbashi Store: Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku 1-2-6 TEL3271-8856
Weekday From 09:00 to 19:00, (Saturday holiday until 18:00)
We recommend that you make a reservation for 420 yen per piece for boar rice cake and raw sweets.
