Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - A traditional Japanese game: tie a ball with a hole with a wooden cone, and the ball is thrown up and picked up by the wooden cone. What is that?

A traditional Japanese game: tie a ball with a hole with a wooden cone, and the ball is thrown up and picked up by the wooden cone. What is that?

Is this it? This is called sword jade (けんたま) or sword ball. It is a traditional Japanese toy. I don't know when it originated Anyway, it was popular in the Japanese Edo period (equivalent to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China) and became a sports event for girls' schools after the Meiji Restoration.