蹴け鞠まり

noun

kemari; ancient Japanese court football

A historical ball game played by courtiers in the Heian period, where players cooperatively keep a deerskin ball in the air without letting it touch the ground.

• 蹴け鞠まりは平へい安あん時じ代だいの貴き族ぞくの遊あそびです。

  Kemari is a pastime of the Heian-period nobility.

• 京きょう都との神じん社じゃで蹴け鞠まりの実じつ演えんを見みました。

  I saw a kemari demonstration at a shrine in Kyoto.