Red-and-White CAP
Although a red-and-white cap is standard uniform when Japanese elementary school students take gym class, we are very conscious of Red or White on sports festival day!!!
Japanese elementary school students split into Red team and White team at sports festival. Then we compete in a variety of games, then determine whether Red or White won. This style is longstanding sports festival style.
Red and White are the Japanese flag color, Red and White are also festive colors in Japan.
But, at sports festival, almost Japanese imagine Red flag and White flag of the Genpei war what is the civil war that happened about 830 years ago.
Because, we have the special match called KIBASEN game toward the end of the sports festival.
KIBASEN
game is a game which the man who lift 3 people to his feet scrambles for a red-and-white
cap. Survivor's players decide victory or defeat by single combat. That is excited very much.
After sports festival day, early elementary school children who were thrilled by KIBASWN of 5th and 6th graders start to ape KIBASEN. So did my son, too!
