Ms Louise Easter, deputy children’s librarian at the Canterbury Public Library, shows Broadfield School pupils a hagoita, or decorative battledore, one of the items depicting children’s life in Japan on display at the library to mark Japan Week. The hagoita is used to play a ceremonial game, similar to badminton, at New Year. This hagoita is made of wood and is purely decorative, but most have a solid frame with a parchment skin. Japan Week has included film showings, displays of ceremonial dolls and scrolls and Japanese kite flying. It ends today.
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92Ms Louise Easter, deputy children’s librarian at the Canterbury Public Library, shows Broadfield School pupils a hagoita, or decorative battledore, one of the items depicting children’s life in Japan on display at the library to mark Japan Week. The hagoita is used to play a ceremonial game, similar to badminton, at New Year. This hagoita is made of wood and is purely decorative, but most have a solid frame with a parchment skin. Japan Week has included film showings, displays of ceremonial dolls and scrolls and Japanese kite flying. It ends today. Press, 8 October 1988, Page 7
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