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April 8th is the day of the annual flower festival, which celebrates Historical Buddha's birthday. It is customary to set up a bath Buddha tray filled with sweet tea in the Hanamido decorated with spring flowers, and pour sweet tea into the birth Buddha placed in the center of it and visit it.
Until the Edo period, perfume called Goshikisui was used instead of sweet tea, but it seems that sweet tea gradually began to be used.
Visitors put sweet tea in a bamboo tube, etc., take it home, ink it with this sweet tea, write it on paper that `` On the 8th of Uzuki, lucky day Yokami Salmon insect will be defeated '' and put it upside down on doors and pillars It was said that it would be insect repellent.
It seems that sweet tea began to be used as a private medicine and was believed to have insect repellent effect.
Why don't you enjoy seasonal events at a temple where the flower festival is held in the busy season of flowers?
◆Tsukiji Honganji / Hanamatsuri
April 7, 2019 10:00 to 16:00
3-15-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo