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[Soccer] Kyoto Sanga
March 26, 2009
Back during my first year in Japan, I went to a Kyoto Purple Sanga soccer match. I knew it was J-League, but I didn’t know they were in the 1st division. I thought they might have been in a lower division (and at the time may have been in the 2nd division). I decided to look them up and found some information on them. Here is the wikipedia page, and here is a separate link here.
In a qoute from second link:
The mascot of Kyoto Purple Sanga is a mythical bird often associated with emperors in ancient China and Japan, known as “the immortal (or “undying”) bird”. In English this tends to be interpreted as a Phoenix — the mythological bird that rises from its own ashes. However, Yokohama FC already have a claim on that symbol, so it is hard to say whether it is an accurate identification. We will content ourselves with calling it “The Purple Bird”, or for you folks from South Philly, the “Poyple Boyd”.
If I am not mistaken (I could be completely wrong), 朱雀 (すざく, suzaku, “Vermilion Bird”) is associated with the city of 京都 (きょうと, Kyouto, aka: “Kyoto”). So, it isn’t a streach to think that was the reason the bird was chosen to be the mascot.
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