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The 1st Senzaki Kamaboko Board Ball Tournament” was a great success!

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    Oct 11, 2015

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The world's first! Ping-pong tournament using "fish cake board". A great success!

This year marks the 900th anniversary of the appearance of kamaboko in the court banquet food sketches in 1115 during the Heian period (794-1185), and the "1st Senzaki Kamaboko Board Ball Tournament" was held with the racket replaced by a "kamaboko board" in order to introduce more people to Nagato City's specialty, "Senzaki Kamaboko". A total of 288 people from 144 pairs from inside and outside of the prefecture participated in the tournament. There were some heated games that were so high level that it was hard to believe that the rackets were made of kamaboko boards, and there were also some pairs who enlivened the tournament with fun costumes and performances, making it a very exciting event. We are looking forward to seeing many of you again next time. 1st place group] Winner ? ? Koji Hamaya and Yoshinori Matsunaga (Nagato City) Second place ? Kazuhiro Otani, Yuji Nakatani (Nagato City) 3rd place ? Kenichi Yamashita and Keisuke Takenaga (Shimonoseki City) 3rd place ? Hisashi Muryotani and Shinji Kubota (Nagato City) [2nd place group] Winner ? ? Mitsuteru Feiniwa and Yamato Tanabe (Shimonoseki and Mine) Second place ? Tatsuhiko Hironaka and Masako Aomura (Nagato City) Third place ? Nobuhiko Shiraki & Noriko Shiraki (Nagato City) 3rd place ? Miwako Emoto & Yoshimi Kimura (Nagato City) [3rd place group] Winner ? ? Marina Minamikawa, Reina Kunichika (Nagato City) Second place ? Teruyo Nishijima, Chikako Kanamori (Nagato City) Third place ? Miyako Ohata and Sanae Otani (Masuda City, Shimane Prefecture) 3rd place ? Kota Nakamura, Shogo Moriyama (Nagato City) [Special prize for masquerade] First place ? ? Fumie Fujimoto and Tomiyoshi Uchiyama (Hagi and Nagato Cities) Second place ? Kimiyo Hara and Yasuyo Yoshikawa (Yamaguchi City), [Special Prize] "I've come a long way" by Toshiro Yamano and Tatsu Fukuma (Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture), [Highest Age Prize] by Masaharu Saeki (90 years old) (Shimonoseki City), Mr. Katsuhito Sasaki of Shunan City won the championship with a world-tying record of 16 tiers. s-IMG_3097The pledge of allegiance was, of course, given by Motohiko & Fumi of "Hananenyu" fame. s-IMG_3113The rackets are all "fish cake boards" (^^)s-IMG_3348Motohiko & Fumi are also very active!s-IMG_3185Kamaboko mascot characters "Kamapi" & "Chickle" are from Nagato City (^^) s-IMG_3164The two lucky kamaboko who won first place in the masquerade category! s-IMG_3142Witch's "ping-pong" flight? s-IMG_3115Backup for the super-talented clowns.

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