old fashioned sweet shops
2014年06月20日
As kids, most of us all remember those good old days of dime stores, cheap candy. A time when 10 cents could buy a small bag of sweets and go a long way to making for a great time especially watching a cowboy matinee show at a cinema on a saturday afternoon. 20 cents (or 1 shilling in my day) was a blowout on chewy luxury and enough sugar intake for a month. Dentists must have had a field day.
Japan has an equivalent named ‘dagashi’ often run by kind, old and retired people selling candy drops, rice crackers, dried squid and all kinds of small toys, spinning tops, paper balloons and other wonderful stuff that coin-clutching kids would carefully select in the hope that they’d win a lucky draw for another free snack by opening the lucky bag with the number inside.
Dagashi are disappearing rapidly and along with them another part of Japan’s unique culture and history. There has been an attempt to revive dagashi in some of the major department stores offering small dagashi shops within the stores, but the atmosphere is a little different.
I was lucky enough to find an old couple who still run a store and was impressed with the lovely way they talked with the kids and taught them little things.
The original meaning of the word ‘dagashi’ was for sweets of low quality, but eventually came to mean sweets that were affordable for young kids on small allowances.
I’ll be back with part two on dagishi soon.
There some upcoming events in Takamatsu that I’m sure will be of interest, so please keep the following in mind.
Summer events:
A water & lights & music festival held at the bay area in the center of Takamatsu. Some holograms will emerge on a huge water screen made by sending up sea water in the air. We’ll show unknown fine art & dynamic displays.
Historical tales and everyone can participate in some contents using smart phones.
On the summer nights, we’ll hold the entertainment show that is located in the Inland Sea.
1. the movie of the Genpei War in the Tale of the Heike.
2. the fishing game playing by smart phone
( the participatory type game )
3. the video works created by Team Labo on the water screen
Water calligraphy by Team Labo.
Gokan Dining
The artists in Sanuki will entertain you in an elegant atmosphere at the important cultural asset Hiunkaku which shows you the local history.
The enjoyable collaboration of Japanese & Italian food and table wear created by artists. Together with jazz piano songs (available for only people who book the meal)
7/19th.(Sat.) ~ 27th.(Sun) 23th will be off.
Link. http://www.takumikumo.com
place : Hiunkaku in Tamamo Park
time ; 17:45 ~ 19:45 20;00 ~ 22:00
charge 8,500 yen (including tax , not including drinks)
contact [mail] info@takumikumo.com
[tell] 087-881-2933 ( 10:00 ~ 17:00 ) weekdays only.
Other bloggers in Takamatsu of interest:
http://cathy.ashita-sanuki.jp
http://ogijima.com
http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~tmath/home/
Where we are:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Takamatsu
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/
http://www.my-kagawa.jp/special/visitor/kanko/index.htm
http://www.i-pal.or.jp/profile/topics/kagawas-welcome-card.html
Japan has an equivalent named ‘dagashi’ often run by kind, old and retired people selling candy drops, rice crackers, dried squid and all kinds of small toys, spinning tops, paper balloons and other wonderful stuff that coin-clutching kids would carefully select in the hope that they’d win a lucky draw for another free snack by opening the lucky bag with the number inside.
Dagashi are disappearing rapidly and along with them another part of Japan’s unique culture and history. There has been an attempt to revive dagashi in some of the major department stores offering small dagashi shops within the stores, but the atmosphere is a little different.
I was lucky enough to find an old couple who still run a store and was impressed with the lovely way they talked with the kids and taught them little things.
The original meaning of the word ‘dagashi’ was for sweets of low quality, but eventually came to mean sweets that were affordable for young kids on small allowances.
I’ll be back with part two on dagishi soon.
There some upcoming events in Takamatsu that I’m sure will be of interest, so please keep the following in mind.
Summer events:
A water & lights & music festival held at the bay area in the center of Takamatsu. Some holograms will emerge on a huge water screen made by sending up sea water in the air. We’ll show unknown fine art & dynamic displays.
Historical tales and everyone can participate in some contents using smart phones.
On the summer nights, we’ll hold the entertainment show that is located in the Inland Sea.
1. the movie of the Genpei War in the Tale of the Heike.
2. the fishing game playing by smart phone
( the participatory type game )
3. the video works created by Team Labo on the water screen
Water calligraphy by Team Labo.
Gokan Dining
The artists in Sanuki will entertain you in an elegant atmosphere at the important cultural asset Hiunkaku which shows you the local history.
The enjoyable collaboration of Japanese & Italian food and table wear created by artists. Together with jazz piano songs (available for only people who book the meal)
7/19th.(Sat.) ~ 27th.(Sun) 23th will be off.
Link. http://www.takumikumo.com
place : Hiunkaku in Tamamo Park
time ; 17:45 ~ 19:45 20;00 ~ 22:00
charge 8,500 yen (including tax , not including drinks)
contact [mail] info@takumikumo.com
[tell] 087-881-2933 ( 10:00 ~ 17:00 ) weekdays only.
Other bloggers in Takamatsu of interest:
http://cathy.ashita-sanuki.jp
http://ogijima.com
http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~tmath/home/
Where we are:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Takamatsu
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/
http://www.my-kagawa.jp/special/visitor/kanko/index.htm
http://www.i-pal.or.jp/profile/topics/kagawas-welcome-card.html
タグ ：kagawa
"Pat has lived in Takamatsu continuously since arriving here on a one year study and leave 1981. Originally from Tasmania, Australia, he was involved in education at a variety of levels including as a specialist teacher for children with learning difficulties, and at senior high schools throughout the state. Pat is employed full-time by the i-pal Kagawa International Exchange as a co-oridintaor for international relations amongst other duties including traveling to schools and giving talks in Japanese to kids about Australia. He has been involved with youth education exchanges between Japan and Australia for many years.
Pat has been many things in his colorful life including a seaman, helmsman, welder, carpenter, traffic warden, scholarship/studentship winner at the university of Tasmania, staff at the Australian Embassy in London to name but a few. Pat has far too many hobbies which include tennis, playing jazz flutes and saxes, riding bicycles with the Takamatsu Cycling Club all of which his long-suffering family tolerate. Recently he's become interested in painting again. His wife wishes he would put more time in to helping around the house and the garden which he artfully avoids ..."
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