Editing Hanetsuki

{{Short description|Japanese shuttlecock game}}
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[[File:Kusakabe Kimbei 152 Girls.JPG|thumb|Hanetsuki]]
[[File:Hanetsuki-shop2009.jpg|thumb|Hanetsuki paddles (left) and shuttlecocks (right) being sold at a shop in a train station.]]
{{Nihongo||羽根突き or 羽子突き|'''Hanetsuki'''|lead=yes}} is a Japanese traditional game, similar to racket games like [[badminton]] but without a net, played with a rectangular wooden [[paddle]] called a ''[[hagoita]]'' and a brightly coloured [[shuttlecock]], called a ''hane''.<ref name="japanguide1">{{cite web | website=Japan Guide | url=https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2261.html | title=Hanetsuki | date=2002-12-03 | accessdate=2021-01-21 }}</ref> Often played by girls at the [[Japanese New Year|New Year]], the game can be played by any gender in two fashions: by one person attempting to keep the shuttlecock aloft as long as possible, or by two people batting it back and forth. Players who fail to hit the shuttlecock get marked on the face with [[India Ink]]. Traditionally, the longer the shuttlecock remains in the air, the greater protection from [[mosquito]]es the players will receive during the coming year. Although ''hanetsuki'' is not as popular as it used to be, decorative ''hagoita ''are commonly sold throughout Japan.

The game is also known as {{Nihongo||追い羽根, 追羽根, or 追羽子|Oibane}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=WWWJDIC: Online Japanese Dictionary Service |website=Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group|url=https://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?1C |access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref><ref>The Kanji Dictionary, Spahn & Hadsamitzky, Tuttle, 1996</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Kikuko's Website: Hagoita/Hanetsuki|url=http://kikuko-nagoya.com/html/hagoita.html|access-date=2021-05-28|website=kikuko-nagoya.com}}</ref>

''Hagoita'' often have pictures of [[kabuki]] theatre performers or celebrities on them.

At the beginning of the game's development, [[soapberry|soapberry nuts]] were often used as shuttlecocks.

==See also==
* [[Battledore and shuttlecock]]

==References==
{{wiktionary|hanetsuki}}
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[[Category:Japanese games]]


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