Day 4069: TBT and Moon viewing.

   

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Sensei Dan Ivan, Demura Sensei, Sensei Sho Kosugi Karate demonstration at Japanese Village and Deer Park in Buena Park, CA 1975

Japanese Village and Deer Park opened in 1967 on a 32-acre site on Knott Avenue, close by the Santa Ana Freeway. It was the brainchild of Allen Parkinson, who also owned the Movieland Wax Museum on Beach Boulevard in Buena Park.

Inspired by a deer park in Nara, Japan, Parkinson brought a little corner of Nippon to Orange County. It featured koi ponds, a five-acre Japanese garden, a classic tea house, pearl divers and martial arts exhibitions.

But the principal attractions of the park were the beautiful deer, 300 of which were imported from Japan. Tourists could buy biscuits and hand-feed the tame creatures. Other animals featured were white doves, large carp fish and in the Sea Theater, dolphins, sea lions and bears provided entertainment. The park was sold to a Newport Beach firm in 1970, and then sold again in 1972, to Six Flags. Declining attendance was cited as reason for closing the park in 1975. The park had a new life, though, in 1976 when it was re-opened as the Enchanted Village which closed again closed in the fall of 1977 and developed into a business park.

Read full article, here.

 

Tsukimi

Tsukimi (月見) or Otsukimi (お月見), literally meaning, "moon-viewing", also known as Jugoya (十五夜), are Japanese festivals honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The celebration of the full moon typically takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month of the traditional Japanese calendar; the waxing moon is celebrated on the 13th day of the ninth month. These days normally fall in September and October of the modern solar calendar. The tradition dates to the Heian era, and is now so popular in Japan that some people repeat the activities for  evenings following the appearance of the full moon during the eighth lunisolar month.

Tsukimi traditions include displaying decorations made from Japanese pampas grass (susuki) and eating rice dumplings called Tsukimi dango in order to celebrate the beauty of the moon. 

Seasonal produce are also displayed as offerings to the moon. Sweet potatoes are offered to the full moon, while beans or chestnuts are offered to the waxing moon the following month. The alternate names of the celebrations, Imomeigetsu　(literally "potato harvest moon"), Mamemeigetsu ("bean harvest moon") or Kurimeigetsu ("chestnut harvest moon") are derived from these offerings.

 

 

A rare 3 minute video, JapaneseVillage, here.

 

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