Oiso No Sagicho Matsuri - Kanagawa - 大磯の左義長
Located in Osio in Kanagawa prefecture, Oiso No Sagicho is a 400 year old Matsuri (festival) celebrating a guardian deity for travelers called a Dosojin as well as being known as Oiso or ‘Little New Year’. The festival takes place at night however, during the day men erect cone-shaped bonfire structures along Oiso beach called Saito which are made of bamboo, pine, used New Year decorations and Daruma. Around 7 pm, the Saito are lit and people pray for good health throughout the coming year. It’s also customary to roast “Dango” (glutinous rice balls) also in hopes of good health for the upcoming year.
Finally, in front of each Saito is held an unusual ritual called Yanna-gokko is held, where men divided into teams play some sort of tug-of-war with the temporary shrine of the deity Seinokamisan sunk in the ocean.
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Sagicho Matsuri 2008
This is an old vid from mid march 2008. It's a festival called Sagicho held at the Himure Hachimangu Shrine in Omihachiman, Shiga.
There are a bunch of floats made out of straw and grains, featuring an animal from the Chinese Zodiac. This year was the year of the rat (GO RATS!). After parading these floats over the span of two days, they burn them and dance around the fire. I was told that this festival is to ask for a good crop in the new year.
Apparently the Sagicho Matsuri was originally known as the Chinese New Year fire festival.
Sagicho Festival 2008 (4)
On Sunday evening in mid-March, people dance excitedly amid showers of fire sparks around the blazing Sagicho floats. This explains why this festival is also called the Omihachiman no Hi-matsuri (Omihachiman Shrine fire festival).
A Sagicho is a float with a 2 m tall pine torch woven from new straw, on top of which is propped a 3 m long bamboo pole decorated with several thousand strips of red paper. A figure of the animal of the year according to the Oriental Zodiac, made with marine products and grain, is mounted in the center of this float. Each town spares no expense in coming up with all kinds of ideas for the floats.
Sagicho festival 2010
An awesome festival that happens in Shiga Prefecture (Omi-hachiman) every year around mid march when the 12 districts each make their own float with the animal of the current Chinese New Year. On the first day they parade the floats around on the second day they parade around and then fight when they meet up with another float. As the day goes on and the people get drunk they end the festival by setting them on fire! BEST festival ever!!!
大磯の左義長祭
大磯の左義長はセエノカミサン（道祖神）の火祭りで、セエトバレエ、ドンドヤキなどとも呼ばれています。左義長の名は、中国の仏教と道教の故事に基づいたものですが、大磯では明治時代後期に大磯に居を構えた初代内閣総理大臣伊藤博文の側近によって使われ始めたという伝承があります。 昭和53年に「大磯の左義長」として、神奈川県無形民俗文化財に指定されたために、左義長の名称が一般に普及したと思われます。平成9年には、国の重要無形民俗文化財に指定されました。
Sagicho Festival 2008 (5)
The Sagicho Festival was apparently held for the first time in the 16th Century by newcomers to this district who had been so astounded by a local festival featuring huge pine torches taking place in April in this shrine that they decided to organize an even more impressive festival. This explains why it is held at this time of the year (mid-March) instead of the New Year, for the Sagicho Matsuri originally signified a New Year fire festival.
Around noon, some 10 Sagicho floats gather at Himure Hachimangu Shrine and a poll is taken to determine the best. Then the floats parade through the town to the accompaniment of shouts of 'Cho yare, yare yare! .' The people carrying mikoshi (portable shrines) are called odoriko and even the men are beautifully made up. Historically, the warlord of the Warring States Period, Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) wore make-up and danced when he organized the Sagicho festival in a grandiose manner in the New Year.