Kemari (Japanese: 蹴鞠) is a ball game that was popular in Japan during the Heian Period. It was the first Japanese sport to become highly developed.[1] Kemari has been revived in modern times.
Nowadays, it is played in Shinto shrines for festivals.[2]
There are many traditional handicrafts which involve fibre arts, one of them being the ancient craft of temari.
Temari means "hand ball" in Japanese. It is a folk craft born in
ancient Japan from the desire to amuse and entertain children with a toy
hand ball. Temari is said to have its origins from Kemari
(football), brought to Japan from China about 1400 years ago. Today, the lovely thread-wrapped temari balls are given as tokens of
good luck and they are displayed and enjoyed as works of art.
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