"Fuku wa Uchi!" Mame Maki in various places At temples and zoos ... February 3, 13:32
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On the third day of Setsubun, bean sowing was held in various places.
Naritasan Shinshoji Temple repeats "Fuku wa Uchi"
The annual Settlement Festival was held at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Chiba Prefecture, where the performers of the NHK taiga drama and the sumo wrestlers performed bean sowing.
At Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, a special festival has been held since the Edo era to pray for rich harvest, and many people come to the festival every year due to the participation of celebrities.
This year's NHK taiga drama "Kirin ga Kuru" will feature actor Hiromi Hasegawa who plays the main character, Akichi Mitsuhide, sumo wrestler Yokozuna Hakuho, and Kabuki actor Eiji Ichikawa, the 13th generation of Kotoshi Danjuro Ichikawa. And others participated and sown beans all at once from the stage in front of the main hall.
It is said that the benevolence of Narutosan Shinshoji Temple, which is said to be the deity of the main priest, Fudo Myo, will also convert the demon, so it repeats "fortune is inside" instead of "outside is outside". is.
Hasegawa and about 130 people sowed beans on the stage, and the people who gathered on the grounds were reaching out to get good fortune.
Bean sowing is also done in the afternoon, meaning that about 1260 kg of soybeans and peanuts are used in one day.
A 55-year-old office worker from Minamiboso City, Chiba Prefecture, said, "I picked up the beans thrown by Hakuhoseki directly and decorate them on the shelves. This year is going to be a good year because of the Olympics." Was.
"Scarlet" Performers also Mame Maki Osaka
At Naritasan Fudoson in Neyagawa, Osaka, Erika Toda, who plays the heroine of NHK's serial TV novel "Scarlett", and others participated in the annual beans sowing.
A special stage was set up on the grounds of Naritasan Fudoson, and four performers, including Erika Toda, who plays Kimiko the heroine in Scarlett, and Yuko Oshima, who played the role of childhood friend, participated in bean-maki.
In the case of Naritasan Fudoson's bean sowing, it is said that the demon also converts in front of the Fudo Myoio, which is surrounded by the precincts, and does not say that the demon is outside.
Toda and his colleagues scooped up beans in both hands from an extra-large 1,000-square square, one thousand times larger than the one-square installed in the center of the stage, and sowed powerfully to the shout of “Fuku wa Uchi!”.
Approximately 23,000 people who filled the grounds received beans while spreading their prepared bags over their heads.
Also, this year's bean sowing has been prayed to "repeat the plague" to prevent the spread of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus.
Parents and children who came from Hirakata City said, `` I knew the crowds, so I was worried about the infection of the virus, but I met the members of Scarlett who watch every day and I felt like I was happy. Was.
Wakayama throwing beans into baboons
At an animal park in Shirahama-cho, Wakayama Prefecture, an event was held in which visitors could throw beans on baboons and eat them. About 90 baboons are bred in Adventure World, a zoo in Shirahama-cho, Wakayama Prefecture.
Visitors threw the beans into the breeding farm while saying "Fuku wa Uchi", and the baboons received and ate the beans dexterously with their hands and mouth. The people gathered and enjoyed watching the baboons reach their bodies and hands on the tree to receive the beans.
A 9-year-old girl from Wakayama Prefecture said, "The appearance of catching beans was similar to humans and it was cute."
On the 3rd, an event was held in which apples and carrots wrapped in banana leaves were presented to hippos, simulating Ehomaki.
The hippo, which is three meters long, opened a large mouth and ate deliciously. Visitors were also able to feed like small ehomaki rolls and threw them into the mouth of the hippopotamus.
A 57-year-old woman from Yokohama said, "I made it this year to be a good year. I'm glad I got into my mouth."