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2025 Tradition of falconry culture New Year "Demonstration of Suwa style falconry"

 2025 Tradition of falconry culture New Year

 On January 3, at Hamarikyu Garden Uchibori Square, as one of the events of "Hamarikyu's gorgeous New Year" was held, "Demonstration of Suwa style hawk art" based on the flow of falconers of the Edo period Shogun's family. Was.            The hunting method in which trained hawks are released to catch wild birds and small animals is called "falconry (falconry)," and the skills and heart of the bearer falconry are called "falconry". In the early Edo period, this area had a history of being the Shogun's Mitakaba area where reeds spread, and later became the Shogun's annex "Hamagoten", and after the Meiji Restoration, falcons lived in the park as a Kamoba in the Imperial Household, and after the war The only Shinsenza that is open as a metropolitan park and open to the public.·There are two ducklings in Koshindo. Some of the techniques will be shown as a New Year's opening event in order to inherit the traditional culture built by successive generals and to inherit the garden.                     "Ichifuji Nitakasan eggplant" is said to be auspicious when viewed in the first dream, but the hawk that reigns at the top of the food chain is a symbol of dignity, the experience is good, and the view of "hawk art" unfolding in front of you It is an event suitable for the New Year.                                  First of all, put a hawk on a fist and walk around in front of the audience, walk around, and after `` setting up '' to adapt to the environment, line up, followed by greetings from Noriko Otsuka, the 18th Suwa style of Suwa style, followed by the introduction of the performers, I move on to the demonstration.              After a demonstration of a "transfer" that jumps from a falconer's fist to another falconer's fist, after a "transfer" experience corner of Momoka Eastern buzzard (Harrisfolk), who recruited applicants from the spectators, they flew down at high speed from the rooftop of the Hamarikyu Mitsui Building, aiming for prey (pseudo-bait) and released the "Momo Aka Eastern buzzard's".                 In addition, the falconers wear traditional costumes such as bird hats, undergarment (Bandri), Nobanten (Nobanten), horn belts, crotch, leg bonds, and underground tabi, but the student is wearing a half coat.