They are the paper decoration, shaped like lightning so we called them as ‘Sinto Lightning’. They are to protect or divide area and places from the evil outside. Or to show us this is the sacred area.
It made me smile when I researched more, ‘si de’ shaped like lightning because they are meant to be scary to the evil - so we called lightning wasn't that far off!
I don't know why that was me to make those but I had been making them since I found how to make one. Even with some letterings which you would not see in Japan.
It was fun to find out how to make one and I used them for decorating the little shrine or prayer alters.
When we were preparing for the Kira fortress, our designer wanted to have some of these but really huge. We found some references from books too.
This is the picture from the festival held in Handa, Aichi, Japan. The familiar looking banners has some decorations on top. They were bamboo branches but some are shown with these lightnings.
We figured out how big they should be from the picture, and the buyer got some IKEA white poly blinds - as they would be sturdy in the rain outside.
Cut, folded, spray mounted and stitched together on the top of the high bamboo bars.
Could it be a little bigger and fluffier?
The bamboo ones were used too on one of our tall banners at the fortress.
I don't why they are bamboos. We saw vary decorations - five coloured silks, three umbrellas,,, they must have some sort of meaning for each one I'm sure.
It was nice to know the proper name for this paper decorations which we don't know how to called them normally even in Japan and even how to make some.
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