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Taka Gen Japan's first stick specialty store The elegant parasol is also wonderful.

　When you pass Ginza Street, your feet always stop in front of Taka Gen's shop.

Lovely sticks, elegant umbrellas, parasols.　It's very interesting.

When you buy small items and visit the back of the shop, there are many sticks lined up and you will be fascinated again.

I found a pigeon design on the stick pattern.

The origin of the dove

The origin of the pigeon stick Taka Gen Japan's first stick specialty store The elegant parasol is also wonderful.

　A thing that wrote the origin of the pigeon cane was posted overhead.

When I asked the shop to take a photo and post it on the correspondent blog, he accepted it, "It's good."

"The origin of the pigeon cane The reason of the old shakujo has been told from the periphery of China.　It is a house for fifty, and in the 60th township in the township, when it reaches 70 years a year, the country reaches 80 years old and is allowed a cane in the palace (Rekimaki 4, royal system).

This cane is called a cane, and later it is called a cane, and since the Wei era, this has been called a dove, but it is said that pigeon decorations have been a feature since the time it was already called a cane .

　The Japanese customs of shakujo in Japan began with the record that in Bunmu 4th year, in favor of the achievements and seniors of the left minister Tajihi Majinjima, who was given a spirit Kotobuki cane from the emperor (continuously Nihonki), and the subsequent Madaratake can be recognized not only in the literature, but also in the Shosoin's goods today. The first glance in the record of the name of the pigeon cane is that it was given to Toshinari Fujiwara's Kujuga in 1203.

 

The main man who gave me a pigeon cane

The main person who gave a pigeon cane Taka Gen Japan's first stick specialty store The elegant parasol is also wonderful.

The first and last names of the main people who gave the pigeon cane and the date on which they were given are as follows:

Kiyotsuna Kuroda (April 6, 1909)

Shigenobu Okuma (March 31, 1917)

Taisuke Itagaki (March 31, 1917)

Aritomo Yamagata (March 31, 1917)

Nagakoto Asano (April 23, 1921)

Kaoru Inoue (January 9, 1924)

Heihachiro Togo (January 4, 1926)

Kinmochi Saionji Temple (January 4, 1928)

Gonbee Yamamoto (January 16, 1931)

Korekiyo Takahashi (January 4, 1935)

Reijiro Wakatsuki (January 15, 1945)

Shigeru Yoshida (October 16, 1965)

　If you are interested in the following explanation, please take a look at the shop.

There is a belief that the cane is used by the elderly, but I think it is cool.

In addition, it is also called a cane that does not fall down, and I think it would be nice to be presented as a celebration of longevity.

Please see here for more information about Mr. Gen Taka. https://www.takagen.co.jp/