For the first time in about a year, a huge sand painting in the shape of coins from the Edo period, "Sand Zarae," which shapes the shape of the "Sand-shaped sand painting," was held in Kanonji City, Kagawa Prefecture.
The "Sengata Sand Painting" on the sandy beach of Kotohiki Park in Kanonji City is a huge sand painting that is about 120 meters east-west and about 90 meters north-south in the shape of the coin "Kanei Tsuho" from the Edo period.
It is said that it was made about 390 years ago, and it is said that those who see it are not inconvenienced by money.
On the 28th, a "sand painting" was held to prepare sand paintings that had lost their shape due to rain or sand, and about 160 people including city officials and volunteers participated.
Participants use a shovel to pile up sand while receiving instructions from the person in charge at the park's observatory, or climb on the piled sand to make the word "Kanei Tsuho" stand out and harden it. I was smoothing.
This "sand shaving" is held twice a year, in spring and autumn, but this spring was canceled for the first time in a year due to bad weather.
Yasuo Sano, chief of the Kanonji City Commerce and Tourism Division, said, "I want to keep the sand paintings that our predecessors have protected without interruption. Was there.