Danjiri Matsuri
I got to experience my first festival in Osaka, Japan! It was a blast, and I hope I have the opportunity to go again!
Hightlights of the Day:
0:02 Food, Drinks, and Game Stalls
0:50 Danjiri Paper Lanterns
1:21 Best Danjiri Float
1:25 First (Full) Danjiri Procession (that I saw)
3:27 Best Daiku-gata Performance
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岸和田だんじり祭 紙屋町転倒事故２０１２
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Overview [edit]
Kishiwada northwest, and is held every September in Kishiwada castle and its surrounding (area called the old city).
About 260 years ago, 1745 years from now (NobeToru 2 years), Chayashin MigiEmon of Machikata will see and hear the festival of Osaka, Summer Festival (lunar calendar - June 13 of Gozu Tenno, Inc. (currently Kishiki shrine) day) is beginning to have been allowed to submit a request to be the lord want to set a votive lantern to [1]. In addition, in 1703, it is Okabe ChoYasushi was a Kishiwada lord at the time to Emotion the Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine in Kishiwada Castle Sannomaru, there is a theory that the beginning of the Inari Festival was performed pray for bumper crops
The Danjiri riding in speed diverting spear turn in a real thrill, corner of 曳行 course is flooded with a large number of audience. Also, in the interest also very exquisite sculpture that has been subjected to Danjiri, sometimes willing to allow sightseeing if Moshidere during the stop, such as during the break.
Although the original was one local festival of Kansai, it came to be introduced in a number of media from around the end of the Showa era, became the festival of a stretch nationwide. In recent years, Danjiri has further increased the town council that owns, expanding scale there. Meeting held on the same day of Haruki Danjiri Festival and combined north and south 3.5km, traffic regulation is laid in a range of east and west 1km. This Nankai Main Line Haruki Station - is Japan's largest scale that includes 4 stops all between Takojizō Station. Attendance in 2009 was 56 million people in two days (Gion Festival in Kyoto is carried out in a range of east and west 2.5km along Shijō Street, the audience number Yoiyama 380,000, parade of decorated floats 130,000).
Danjiri [edit]
曳行 differentially Danjiri (lettuce) is (there is also be used ebony, etc. decorative) total zelkova building, front to put the two of rope of about 100m, hurtling the local town with 500 people about. Provided with a Japanese drum and gongs of large and small play a musical accompaniment, Shinobue is applied there. It is said to as goddess dwells in the zelkova, but women can not ride on floats, girls are not as long as that. It is possible for us to participate as a hand adult women also dragged, but stopped at about the age of 18, later the vast majority who go around in a position to support the men.
Under Danjiri the Danjiri of Kishiwada type that went undergone its own evolution from the need to dive the gates in the early modern period of Kishiwada castle, sometimes divide called the upper Danjiri various Danjiri who left the previous form. Under Danjiri is popular with exquisite sculptures and graceful silhouette, it is showing a spread in addition to Kishiwada city and Quanzhou area [2]. Kishiwada, Izumi City, Tadaoka, Kaizuka, kumatori, Izumisano, Danjiri to be 曳行 in Tajiri town has become all under Danjiri.
The spear Turn [edit]
An exciting, which is a feature of under Danjiri spear turn, it is drawn Tsuna-moto (Tsunamoto) scored from the line and speed with the base of the rope, carpenter how on the roof (carpenter ye) issues an instruction , it is carried out waving to the outside of the lever (Ushiroteko) after it has been plugged into rootstock backward. At that time, before applying a pre-lever (Maeteko) inner ring to the previous, it was fine-tuned to suit the various curvature, role called racketeering or semi to ride on the flat side of the floats is, the outside gets off inside increase the number In response to the centrifugal force, for example, by, and step on the brake if necessary brake personnel.
Before leverage in charge in one person on the left and right, for it to match each other's breathing it is important, in many cases serve in each other close friend or cousin. In addition, it is because, even many who have temperance a dangerous role to pay close attention. Rear lever in charge has a 20-30 in the (two Jitsu goons and XXX goons also called) people, silk damask (Dong-soo) that extends from the rear lever to branched or lever ass. Carpenter who is the main roof to one, about three people to the rear roof ride, (you hit the edge of the direction of the roof to be corrected) using the fan by monitoring the front of the course after issuing a lever to instructions. In the narrow alley, it is necessary to instruct little by little.