[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools Natsume (thin tea utensils) for Boys' Festival] Medium-sized natsume, black lacquer, Genji incense lacquer, made by Munekage Miyata

●Genjiko is a type of Kumiko.
A total of 25 packets of five different kinds of fragrant wood are prepared, with five packets each. Only five of these packets are burned, and the differences in the scents are distinguished by smell, which is shown on a diagram made up of five vertical and horizontal lines.
There are 52 illustrations, each named after one of the 54 chapters in the Tale of Genji, except for Kiritsubo and Yume no Ukihashi. It is said to have been devised during the reign of Emperor Gomizunoo.

●Ayamekou: one of the Kumiko performances held in the summer
The poem reads, "The May showers increase the water in the pond, and the irises grow like waterfowl."
This is based on the 16th chapter of the Genpei Jōsuiki. The contents are as follows:

One of the ladies-in-waiting to Emperor Toba was a beautiful woman named Ayamae no Mai, and Yorimasa fell in love with her at first sight.
Yorimasa sent frequent letters to Shobuda, but received no reply.
Three years passed and this became known to Emperor Toba.
Toba-in asks Shobuda about the situation, but she just blushes and does not give a clear answer.
So he summons Yorimasa and asks him to test whether he is simply fond of Ayame-no-Mae because she is very beautiful, or whether he is truly in love with her.
So he had two women who looked similar to Shobu-no-mae in age and appearance dressed in the same kimonos, and told Yorimasa to tell the difference between them and leave the room together.
Yorimasa was unsure how he could propose to the Emperor's favorite woman, as he was not confident in his ability to tell the difference after only a brief look at her face.
He was worried and hesitant because if he made a mistake, it would cause embarrassment not only for the time being but would make him a laughing stock for generations to come, but the Emperor spoke to him again, so he presented him with a poem: "In the May showers, the water spills over the stone walls of the swamp, pulling the irises with difficulty."
The Emperor was impressed and handed Shobu-no-mae over to Yorimasa.

The Kumiko procedure is as follows:
Five types of incense are available.
The reason why there is an attempt only for "four" is because Yorimasa had seen irises while away the time.
All the numbers from one to five are mixed together and burned. In order to search only for the number four, the incense that thought it was one, two, three, or five is ignored. One, two, three, and five represent the ladies-in-waiting who lined up in front of Yorimasa along with Ayame-no-Mae.
The guest writes one, two, three, five on the paper in the order in which they heard the scent, and when they hear the correct scent of four, they weave it into the scent and write "iris" on the right shoulder to indicate the presence of iris.

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Size: Approx. diameter 6.7 x height 7 cm
Author: Miyata Munekage
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Echizen lacquerware from Fukui Prefecture
From 1970, he received instruction from the lacquer artist Issei Minowa, and became independent in 1975.
Since then, he has been studying as a lacquer artist.
Selected for the Echizen Makie Exhibition and won the Lacquerware Association Award
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Box: Wooden box