@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social
2026-06-29 01:04 UTC
The delicately flavoured sweets (each colour has a different taste) are deeply connected to the goddess of weaving, the festival of Tanabata (七夕), the city's famed weaving district, and Keishō-in (桂昌院 1627-1705), a local figure known by many as Kyōto's very own Cinderella.
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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 01:34
Matsuya-Tōbee (松屋藤兵衛) took inspiration for their sweets from a small shrine in the grounds of nearby Imamiya-jinja (今宮神社). Orihime-sha (織姫社), flanked by tributes in the shape of loom-shuttles, enshrines the goddess of weaving 'Takuhatachiji-hime' (栲幡千千姫命). #京都