The history of Kendama game and what is Kendama

3. The kendama today are made from a stick with a point at one end, three
attached cups, and a ball with a small hole in one end. The cups on either
side of the stick are called the big cup and small cup. The ball is connected
to the stick by a roughly 40-centimeter (16-inch) piece of string. At the
end of the stick is a point with which the player can attempt to spear the
ball. At the other end of the stick is a cup called the medium cup.

4. The game is basically played by tossing the
ball and attempting to catch it in one of the
cups or to spear it with the point of the stick.
Although it may sound simple, there are a
nearly unlimited number of specific techniques
for doing so.
Many people may think that kendama was invented in
Japan, but this is not actually the case. While many
different theories exist, there are records indicating
that kendama originated in France in the sixteenth
century. There are also theories that this game was
developed in Greece or China, and the absolute truth is
not known.

5. In France, this game was called bilboquet. Bil means "ball," and
boquet means "small tree." This word expresses the fact that the
game involved playing with a small wooden ball. The game as it
was played then was different from what we know as kendama
today; there was a large cup and a small cup on either end of a
stick, to which a ball was attached with a string. The player
would continually toss and catch the ball, alternating between
the two cups.
Kendama is believed to have come to Japan via the Silk
Road during the Edo period (1603-1868) into Nagasaki, the
only Japanese city open to foreign trade at the time. While it
may have entered the country around the middle of the Edo
period in around 1777 or 1778, the exact date is uncertain.
At the time, buy kendama online was apparently enjoyed by
adults as a sort of drinking game. A player who made a
mistake was forced to drink more.

6. As Japan entered the Meiji era (1868-1912), the Ministry of
Education introduced kendama in the report on children's education
that it put together in 1876, and the game gradually began to catch
on among young people. In 1919, during the Taisho era (1912-
1926), the forerunner of today's kendama went on sale. It was
called Nichigetsu Ball (Sun-and-moon ball), because the ball looked
like the sun, while the shape of the shallow carved cups was like a
crescent moon. This toy became a huge hit, and from this time into
the beginning of the Showa era (1926-1989), a variety of different
types of kendama appeared, including a ball attached to a kind of
paddle.