Riding Giant Logs in Japan's Dangerous 1,200-Year-Old Festival | Short Film Showcase
Every six years the Suwa area in central Nagano celebrates the Onbashira Festival. Onbashira, which translates to the honorable pillars, attracts thousands of people each year who participate in moving 16 massive fir tree trunks from the mountains to the shrines of Suwa. To reach the shrines, the trunks are pulled with ropes and ridden down steep hills, through a river and across the streets, in the 1,200-year-old festival. Oh! Matsuri captures this exhilarating procession in which we see the trunks' trek to replace the sacred pillars at the four shrines and stand, in honor, for the following six years.
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2010 Onbashira - Suwa, Japan
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SUPER DANGEROUS! Onbashira Festival (Japanese log riding Festival)
A look at the 2010 Onbashira Festival in Suwa, Nagano, Japan. Held once every 6 years, this festival celebrates the bringing of huge logs from Mt. Yatsugatake to the shrine. Kiotoshi or Log Fall is where Suwa citizens ride down steep hills on the log. Some logs can weigh up to 10 tons! Onbashira means Honoured Pillars. Most time this event is held people die, despite the safety efforts. in 2010 three people died, but no one died during the Kiotoshi. Kiotoshi happens eight times during the weekend long event.
Onbashira Festival @Suwa Japan
A sacred festival held every 6 years at Suwa Japan.
Dangerous Festival in Japan - Onbashira Festival
Sacred pillars Festival
In this festival, located in Suwa Taisha, Nagano - 1000s of locals participate in moving massive tree trunks from the surrounding mountains to the shrines of Suwa. These trees become the new great pillars, or Onbashira, in the corners of each Suwa shrine. This event is very crazy and the atmosphere is very intense in a good way.
The festival has the reputation of being the most dangerous in Japan due to the number of people regularly injured or killed while riding the logs.
Considering how dangerous this event is, everyone still had a great time, there was music, food, drink and bon fire.
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Japan - Lake Suwa
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Located inland approximately 200 kilometres west of Tokyo, the picturesque lake Suwa region will host the 1998 Winter Olympics. The Suwa region of Nagano Prefecture is surrounded on four sides by mountains. During the olympics of 1998, the popularity of the Suwa region as a tourist destination will grow to international proportions.
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Lake Suwa, birds landing on lake, sun on lake;
Art gallery with ceramics of 16th and 17th centuries, vs glass museum, art deco style artworks;
Grand Shinto Shrine, log riding festival;
PAN mountain ranges;
VS music box factory, vs music boxes, interior mechanics;
Watch making factory, CU watch faces,
Ice skating course, youths skating;
Man fishing for water smelt;
VS skiing, snowboarding;
PAN mountain range;
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Once every seven years, the Suwa area (in central Nagano) holds the Onbashira festival. In this festival, thousands of locals participate in moving 16 massive fir tree trunks from the surrounding mountains to the shrines of Suwa. These fir trees are usually 17 to 19 meters long, 1 meter wide and weigh around 7.5 tons each. These trees become the new great pillars, or Onbashira, in the corners of each Suwa shrine.
Over the span of the festival, upwards of 3,000 people will participate in pulling each tree from the mountain to its destination. They must cross rivers, navigate narrow Japanese streets and even ride these massive trees downhill. It’s an amazing spectacle and it will be happening in April and May of next year, so now’s the time to start planning!
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【Renewal】Dangerous! Onbashira Festival2010命がけ・木落し！ Log Riding Man in Japan
Log riding man=Down The Kiotoshi hill .So dangerous and Exciting Festival inJapan ! This is part of The Onbashira Fes april 2010.This fes continue about 1,300 years ! Very famous ! (1998 Nagano Olimpics openingc elemony.)
Million tourist visit in Okaya Suwa Japan. Renewal HD Video
Next festival hold April 2016.See you !!
『信州・諏訪大社・下社・御柱大祭』これぞ木落し！命がけ！！
最大斜度35度！まさにスキーのラージヒルジャンプ台から飛び出すような恐怖感です！【1998年長野オリンピックの開会式に登場して世界的に有名になる】
御柱が「ググー！！」とせり出し、いよいよクライマックスの『木落とし』です！！ 【この日の人出はなんと25万人 すごい歓声が狭い木落し坂に響きます】
上空にはＮＨＫの全国放送の取材ヘリもスタンバイ。
ここまで山奥の曳き出し地点から7時間以上もかけ氏子たちの力で曳き付けてきているのです。
そのパワーとみんなの想いがたった15秒ほどの木落しに凝縮されています。
命を懸けた「華乗りの若い衆」の緊張感と氏子の皆さんの興奮がビンビン伝わってきます！！
「どうぞご無事でお願いだ～！」と木やり唄と消防ラッパ隊の演奏の中、『御神木』は見事に『龍神』のように木落し坂を滑り下り、万歳三唱と賞賛の拍手が沸き起こりました。
めでたし！メデタシ！！
ただ、この際も2人ほど救急車で運ばれました。本当に危険で命がけのお祭です！！
ちょうど「イギリスのチーズ転がし祭」のように人間がコロコロ回転しながら木落し坂を転がっていきます！！
Dangerous! Onbashira Festival2010 命がけ・木落し！ Log riding fighters in Japan
『日本３大奇祭・諏訪大社・下社・山出し・秋宮四之御柱・木落しの場面』【HD】
2010年4月10日 勇壮な「木落し」が行われました。
最大斜度35度以上の急坂を華乗りの若い衆を先頭に一気に滑る下り降ります！！
太くて長い「もみの木」が、砂塵を巻き上げまるで「龍神」のように見えました。
急坂上からの撮影の為手振れやお見苦しい点はご容赦下さい。
当日の人出は約25万人。狭い山の中がラッシュ状態で殺気立ち危険な状況です。
この模様はNHKで全国生中継されました。また、イギリスBBCほか世界のメジャーメディアも取材に訪れていました。
次回開催は2016年4月です。次回の御柱祭でお会いしましょう！！
Rog riding men==Fighters !! ==Heros !!== Danerous !! Onbashira festival== Mainevent==Kiotoshi=====Down the Kiotoshi hill =====Go! Go! Go!!!!!!
It's look like a Tail of the dragon=======!!!!!
【Very famous festival in japan==1998 Nagano olympic celemony】Next festival hold apr.&may 2016. See you Onbashira festival in suwa.nagano.japan.
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Onbashira Festival 2004 - Kiotoshi#1 御柱祭2004下社木落し#1
Onbashira(or Ombashira) Festival of Suwa Taisha Shinto shrine in Nagano, Japan which was held in 2004. This was Kiotoshi event in Simosha on April 10, 2004.
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Onbashira(or Ombashira) Festival of Suwa Taisha Shinto shrine in Nagano, Japan which was held in 2004. This was Kiotoshi event in Simosha on April 10, 2004.
Onbashira is like a Maypose in Europe. The festival lasts more than 1200 years. They build each 4 Onbashiras(wooden poles) in each corner of the shrine. There are 4 shrines in Suwa taisha that are around Lake Suwa, Nagano prefecture.
Some people in Israel and Japan believes that the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel had come to ancient Suwa area in Japan.
申年と寅年の6年に一度行われる長野県・諏訪大社の奇祭『御柱祭』の映像です。
2004年4月～5月に行われた御柱祭のうち、これは下社の里曳祭の一環として行われた木落としです（4月10日）。
この翌日には、ヤフオクで落札した桟敷席で見て、この日の方が正面から間近に撮影できたのですが、肝心の木落としの方は一度できれいに落ちず、イマイチ迫力がありませんでした（太い 御柱 ほど重さのためにきれいに落ちないと言われている）。
この映像では、きれいに落ちている方だと思います。
私は自分のブログ『探求三昧 by N.Momose』で諏訪大社関係の情報をいろいろ提供している他に、mixiでは『諏訪大明神』というコミュニティーを主宰しています。
最近では、古代イスラエル10支族と古代の諏訪との関係にイスラエルからも注目が集まっていて、そのような話題も探求しています。
御柱祭では、御柱に神が宿ると言われますが、古代イスラエルにも同様の信仰がありました。アシラ（アシェラ）という女神に対するもので、柱が神そのものとして信仰されました。
では2010年の御柱でお会いしましょう！
Top 5 Most Dangerous Festivals in The World
Top 5 Most Dangerous Festivals in The World
1. Spain: Baby-Jumping
The Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia has some interesting ideas about childcare. Since the 17th century, the village has been holding a yearly ceremony in which infants are laid out on mattresses in the street. Actors dressed as devils then leap over them. The ritual supposedly dispels the children’s original sin. The festival hasn’t had any mishaps yet, but nobody would blame you if you held your breath until the jumping part is over.
2. England: Cheese-Rolling
For more than a century, a two-day festival has been held in Gloucestershire, England, centered on a strange competition. An 8-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled down a 200-yard hillside in the country. A group of runners chases it, trying to catch it. The problem is that the hill is too steep for a human to stay upright, so most of the runners fall awkwardly after a few steps and then tumble the rest of the way down. Theoretically, the cheese is given to the runner who catches it. But since a wheel of cheese travels downhill much faster than the fragile and oddly shaped bipeds pursuing it, the prize usually goes to the first person to reach the bottom of the hill. Bumps and bruises are guaranteed, and more serious injuries are a definite possibility. Local authorities have tried to discourage the festival, reminding the organizers (including the manufacturer of the cheese) that they could be held liable for any cheese-rolling injuries.
3. Italy: Fruit Battle
If oranges seem harmless to you, that’s probably because nobody has ever thrown one straight at your head. Every year in February the Italian town of Ivrea stages a citrus battle royale, reenacting a semilegendary medieval uprising in which the town overthrew a tyrant. A horse-drawn cart carrying oranges and players representing the tyrant’s evil henchmen is drawn into the square, where it is swarmed by hordes of noble orange-throwing townspeople. The players in the cart wear hockey-style protective gear. The people on foot have special uniforms that divide them into nine traditional squads but nothing to soften the impact of an orange arriving at high speed. Cuts and bruises are to be expected. The sting of orange juice in a cut is certainly an acquired taste. The battle looks like chaos, but there is an important limit: throwing oranges at the horses is strictly forbidden.
4. Spain: Running of the Bulls
Everybody does vacations their own way. Some of us like to go to museums or restaurants, while others like to be chased down the street by angry farm animals. If you’re in the latter category, head to the Fiesta de San Fermín, held in July in Pamplona, Spain. Early in the morning on each day of the festival, about 2,000 brave souls line up at the start of an 875-meter (half-mile) running course through the streets of the city center. The fun starts at 8:00 am, when the human runners sprint down the course immediately followed by six charging bulls. Injuries are rarer than you’d think, but tramplings and gorings—including fatal ones—do occur. More than half of the participants in most runnings of the bulls are tourists. This probably owes something to the American writer Ernest Hemingway, who popularized the festival after he attended in the 1920s.
5. Japan: Extreme Log Ride
Once every six years the Onbashira festival takes place in the Lake Suwa region of Nagano prefecture in Japan. The purpose of the festival is to replace the 16 log pillars that stand at the corners of the four buildings of the Suwa Grand Shrine. The festivities begin in the mountains in April when 16 carefully chosen fir trees in the mountains are cut down using traditional logging tools. They are then dragged down to the temple without the use of mechanized equipment. The logs are usually about 20 meters long and weigh as much as 12 tonnes, so people have to work in large teams to hoist them up mountains and across rivers. The entire journey, usually about 10 kilometers, is treacherous. The deadliest part, though, comes when the logs have to be moved downhill. To prove their bravery, men ride straddling the logs as they hurtle down the mountainside. This can result in devastating injuries and death.
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ONBASHIRA MATSURI 御柱祭 DESCENTE TRONC D'ARBRE - FAIT AU JAPON
On est allé voir le Onbashira Matsuri. Il s'agit d'une fête shinto qui a lieux tous les 7 ans. Elle consiste à aller couper des arbres géants dans une forêt pour les trainer sur 10km jusqu'au temple pour lesquels ils vont servir à le reconstruire. Ces 10 kilomètres sont semés d'embuche parce qu'il y a des descentes très dangereuses à faire !
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