dochuff:dochuff: New Years at Grandma’s Place, mid-late 60s Photo of little Miss Sasamoto by M
New Years at Grandma’s Place, mid-late 60s
Photo of little Miss Sasamoto by Mama Sasamoto with Papa’s “German” camera.
(Upper-middle class to upper class, Showa era.)
The glossy fan-shaped object just barely visible in the rear, is a“sarunokoshikake,” which is a type of mushroom (polyporaceae). This one was huge and was apparently very valuable at the time and more so today. I have been trying to research it, but the most I have learned is that It was used as an ornament throughout the year. It was also used in traditional medicine.
In the background on the short table in the tokonomaiskagamimochi, a traditional Japanese New Year decoration with two rice “cakes” (mochi) and a bitter orange on top. This one also has a skewer of dried persimmons on top of it. The dark object on top of all and in front of the scroll is daikokuten, the god of wealth. The scroll, kakejiku, varied by season. The fan shaped object on the right is not related to New Years, but is a sort of dried mushroom (sarunokoshikake) used as an expensive decoration.
Photo of by Mama Sasamoto, taken sometime in the mid 1960s at grandma’s house in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture.
(Scanned from an old print.)
Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:05:41
