Konjac Nihari Traditional event "Needle memorial service" Osaka Tenmangu Shrine February 8 12:31
A "needle memorial service" was held at Osaka Tenmangu in Kita-ku, Osaka, in which the used needles were stabbed into large konjac to save labor.
Needle memorial service is a traditional event that prays for the improvement of sewing techniques by piercing used needles into soft materials.
In Osaka Tenmangu in Kita-ku, Osaka, needle memorial services have been held every year for more than 90 years, because Kibi Mabi, a Japanese ambassador to the territory of Japan, used to teach embroidery and sewing techniques to Japan during the Nara period.
On the 8th, about 1500 people, including a Japanese judge who made Japanese clothes and students studying clothes, participated and sewed needles one after another by stitching sewing needles and waiting pins on large konjac, 50 cm wide and 10 cm high.
A woman who is a lecturer of Japanese dressmaking in Hyogo Prefecture said, "I came to express my appreciation for the needle. I want to sew a lot of kimono."
Also, a high school girl in Fukui prefecture, who learns sewing, said, “I usually sew hard cloth, so I felt different from usual when I stabbed konjac. Was.