Empress for the first time to sericulture at the Imperial Palace at 11:58 on May 11th
The Empress first appeared on the morning of the 11th for the sericulture at the Imperial Palace, which has been inherited by successive Empresses.
Amid the spread of the new coronavirus, it was from mid-March this year that the Empress went out of the residence in Akasaka, where she lived, and she entered the Imperial Palace from Hanzomon while bowing in a mask. It was.
In the imperial family, successive empresses have been raising silkworms since the Meiji era, and the empress inherited the tradition from the empress.
On the 11th, at the silkworm breeding facility in the Imperial Palace, we went to the first stage of sericulture, the "Sericultural Beginning Ceremony," and were transferred to a tool for breeding silkworm larvae using feather flies.
This time, the number of people working with the Empress was reduced from 5 to 1 in response to the spread of the infection, so the breeding varieties were limited to 4 from the usual year to only one domestically produced "Koishimaru". That is.
The series of ceremonies and events surrounding sericulture lasts until early July, but the empress's involvement is to be considered, taking into account the situation of infection.