Madame Fujiwara Tamie (AKA) ABUTSU

As I promise to ~ DramaQueen on my October 5th Blip, here's back FULL LEAVE NANA FLOWER without mask.

Every year on October 22 in Kyoto is the traditional Japanese festival called JIDAI MATSURI - "Festival of the Ages".
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JIDAI-MATSURI

History

About 1,200 years ago, the Emperor Kammu chose picturesque Yamashiro with its beautiful mountains and clean water as the site of "Heian-Kyo," the new capital.
This decision, made on October 22nd in the year 794, was the beginning of Kyoto. In celebration of the 1,100th anniversary of the founding of the capital and in commemoration of the Emperor Kammu, the citizens of Kyoto established the Heian Shrine in 1895.

One of the purposes for the founding of the shrine was to leave to posterity a symbol of the great respect the citizens of that time had for the Emperor.
Another purpose was to unite the entire city under the "Heian Kosha" organisation. As one of the projects of the Heian Kosha, it was decided to annually celebrate October 22nd (the date when the capital was moved to Kyoto) with a grand festival.

The highlight of this festival is a procession of colorful and varied costumes and articles of the nobility as well as commoners, representing various ages during the passage of more than ten centuries.
Thus the name "Festival of Ages." This procession consists of about 2,000 persons and stretches several kilometers in length.

The costumes and equipment used in this procession are historically accurate, based on thorough research by various experts in their respective fields. For example, the weaving and dyeing of the costumes are carried out in the same manner as were the originals.

At first, there were only six sections in the procession. In 1921, this grew to eight. In 1931 the procession was made even more picturesque and expanded to 10 sections. Suspended in 1944 because of the war, the procession was revived in 1950 with further additions and more pageantry.
The Procession of the Patriots of the Meiji Restoration was added in 1966 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Emperor Komei.
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FULL LEAVE NANA FLOWER and ABUTSUNI

Today FULL LEAVE NANA FLOWER marched in the parade as ABUTSU .
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ABUTSU c. 1222 -1283
Japanese poet and prose writer.

ABUTSU is known as a famous poet and essayist who went to the Court to protect the illustrious poetry legacy of the Fujiwara family and her sons’ future. Her husband was Fujiwara Tameie and his father and grandfather were two of the most renowned poets in the late Heian to early Kamakura eras, Fujiwara Teika and Fujiwara Shunzei.

After her husband died in 1275, she became a nun, yet she also had the goal to follow her husband’s wishes to make her son, Tamesuke, the legal heir.
Her greatest obstacle was her stepson. In order to make an official claim for her son, she had to travel on the Tokaido-road from Kyoto to Kamakura. In Kamakura she wrote the poetic diary, The Waning Moon (Izayoi Nikki) as an account of this trip. It is a major classic from the Kamakura period.

ABUTSU died while waiting for the court’s decision; twenty years later her son legally became the heir and protector of the Fujiwara poetry manuscripts.

For her own work and for founding the Reizei school of poetry, she is considered one of the most important female Japanese poets of her time.