Edo fanpuzzle

Edo fan"Rigid."A chic pastime of the Edo period

A "hanjimono" is a kind of riddle. It is a riddle in which the meaning of a character or picture is solved. It is to guess the meaning of a hidden word or thing.

Bakku goUmakuiku

Horse nine go run, horse nine go kyuu means ... all "...Umakuikuis read as "馬九行駆" (馬九行久). There are many ways to call and write these characters because they are auspicious and guesswork. Wild horses herd together. It may have been said in the past, "If you meet a horse with nine horses, good things will happen to you.

Six gourds, mūsai

Six gourds, or six gourds, are said to be the symbol of good health. Gourds are also expressed as "thousand gourds," a pattern of good fortune that says one's wishes will be fulfilled.

Dragonfly

A dragonfly can only move forward.

Chidori Chidori

Chidori Chidori: to take a thousand. In other words, it gains many.

Hear good things

It has been used in Kabuki classics to read "axe" as "yoki," kotobashira as "koto," and chrysanthemum as "kiku," which means "to hear good things.

kamanai

A picture of a sickle and a wheel, combined with the character for "nu," is a hanjie that reads "kamawanu. It is said to have been worn by machiyakko (town yakko) during the Genroku period of the Edo period (1688-1704), and later by kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII (1791-1859), who used it as a stage costume, making it very popular among the common people of the time.