Since these balls were very elastic and bounced well, girls played by bouncing them on the ground during New Year's Holidays (for example, a hard ball in baseball similarly contains a core of cork wound by threads and covered with leather).
これらのまりは、非常に弾性が高くてよく弾み、正月の日の遊びとして少女らが地について遊んだ（例えば野球の硬球も中はコルクに糸を巻き付けたものを革で包んだ物である）。