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Traditional Costume
- Itinerary -
Guided Tour - Yomei Bunko Museum
“Shozoku” - Court Costume Experience
Move to Daitoku-ji Temple
Guided Tour - Hoshun-in at Daitoku-ji Temple
Move to Mangame-ro
Experiencing Ceremonial Knife Perfomance
1:00PM
2:00PM
3:30PM
5:30PM
60min
60min
15-30min
60min
15-30min
Guided Tour of Yomei Bunko Museum
Guided Tour of Yomei Bunko Museum
Follow in the footsteps of the genius of Edo, Iehiro Konoe.
Iechi was a literary figure active in the mid-Edo period (Late 17th century). He was a scholar and a master calligrapher, who also enjoyed the tea ceremony, the art of incense and flower arrangement. He was also a curator who discovered the artistic value of waka poems and paintings handed down in the Chikamori family from generation to generation and sublimated them into works of art.
Court costume experience
“Shozoku” - Court Costume Experience
This is an opportunity to experience the court costume of the court nobles who were in charge of rituals and various ceremonies at court.
The court costumes were decorated with a variety of stylistic beauty in subtle ways, such as the use of colours to indicate official rank and delicate embroidered patterns to subtly express the family's status.
Models are fitted with costumes and a costume specialist, who has been in business for more than 300 years, provides commentary to help visitors recall the atmosphere of the court of the time.
Konoe Family Cemetery and Daitoku-ji Temple, Hoshun-in
Konoe Family Cemetery and Daitoku-ji Temple, Hoshun-in
The relationship between the Konoe family and Daitokuji Temple dates back to the end of the 12th century. Today, the cemetery is still located in a corner of the temple grounds and is lined with about 30 towers each dedicated to ancesters. The tombs are managed by Hoshun-in, where visitors can admire the beautiful garden and precincts of the temple. It is said that the founder of the Yomei Bunko, Fumimaro Konoe, lived in the grounds when he was a student and at the end of WW2 he was secretly planning to use his room to create shlter for the Emperor Showa to save his life.
[ Dinner ] experience a knife demonstration and yushoku cuisine at Manzhangro, which is also associated with the Chikan family.
Dinner at Mangame-ro:
Knife demonstration and "Yushoku" tradional cuisine
Mangame-ro is a prestigeous restaurant which was found in 1722. It started as a sake brewer and later changed its name to “Mangame-ro” as a restaurant and has been succeeded for ten generations,
It is a ryotei restaurant that has inherited the "Shiki-boucho" - Ceremonial Knife Ddemonstration and "Yushoku" tradional cuisine associated with the Imperial Kitchen.
Traditional Cuisine and the Konoe family:
Fujiwara Yamakage, the ancestor of the Konoe family from the 9th century, was ordered by the Emperor, who had a deep knowledge of cooking, to devise the basic cooking methods, etiquette and rituals related to cooking. Yamakage is regarded as one of the “founders of Japanese cuisine”.
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