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🐗🔥PIG PROTECTION🌪️🦟

One of the great joys of summer is taking out the sliding doors and blurring the line between garden and tearoom, relishing the morning cool before it gets too hot.

But...
Mosquitoes also love the garden.

So what to do?🤔

#Kyoto #京都 #蚊取り線香 #Japan

Atsuko-san throws open the doors to the teahouse garden to enjoy a quiet matcha moment.
During the summer we mostly keep the doors to the garden closed beside the tea room. Not only does this keep the cool air inside, it also traps the mosquitoes outside.
Atsuko-san poses for a photographer in the teahouse garden.
The gardens have tsukubai (purification basins), but we only use these during occasional tea gatherings. Each morning we change the water to keep them clean, and to prevent mosquitoes breeding!
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In Japan it's common to see the traditional 'katori senkō' (蚊取り線香) outside homes and in gardens during the summer.

To combat mosquitoes Ueyama Ei'ichirō (上山英一郎) developed incense sticks in the late 1800s mixed from starch, orange skin, and pyrethrum powder.

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A traditional mosquito coil (katori senko)...a spiral-shaped, slow-burning incense designed to repel or kill mosquitoes by releasing pyrethroid-based smoke into the air.
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It was Ei'ichirō's wife Yuki, in 1895, that suggested he shape the incense into coils.
It took 7 years to perfect!

Nowadays katori senkō has become synonymous with a pig-shaped holder called 'kayari buta' (蚊遣り豚 the 'mosquito repelling pig').
It is deeply evocative of summer.

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But why a pig?

There is no definitive answer, but the connection between pigs (in reality boars) and mosquitoes may have solidified in Edo times.
It is likely the pottery pig-shaped coil holders appeared from the Meiji period in Aichi prefecture.

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An old kayari buta at Omuro-tei (villa).
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🌫️SMOKE TO PIG🐷

In the Edo period it was common to use smoke as a simple mosquito repellant, but as most buildings were made of paper and wood many people in built up areas were concerned about naked flames.

Boars, as familiars of the fire deity, became linked to fire protection.

Woodblock print of a fire raging in Edo. Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/
Woodblock print of a baby Wu Meng fanning smoke to keep mosquitoes away from his sleeping father. Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/
Woodblock print a young lady hanging a mosquito net. Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/
Woodblock print a young women beneath a mosquito net. Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/

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