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Kyoto shrine hosts "kemari" football game for 1st time in 2 years

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Members of the Shukiku Hozonakai, a kemari preservation society, took part in the "Kemari Hajime" festival at the shrine for the first time in two years on Jan. 4. The game is an ancient football game resembling "keepy-uppy," the objective of the game being to keep the ball in the air. The preservation society had to scrap practice from March 2019 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Kyoto shrine hosts "kemari" football game for 1st time in 2 years

Dressed in colorful aristocratic robes and hats, "mariashi" players entertained visitors to Kyoto's Shimogamo Shrine earlier this month with the year's first game of "kemari," an ancient football game resembling "keepy-uppy," the objective of the game being to keep the ball in the air.

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