Festivals

Power of the common people




TomonouraFukuyama-shi, Hiroshima Prefecture

Tomonoura is located at around the center of the Seto Naikai. It has a long history as one of the centers of tradings with continental countries and as one of the ports where ships waited for prosperous gale and tide. Many facilities specially utilized by ships in the Edo era are still preserved.in this city.


  

Jouhanahikiyamamaturi・Jouhanashinmeisha(Shinto shrines)・A spring festival(Toyama・Jouhanamati 5/14,15)
The flexible structure that a roof fold it, and a pillar moves Demarumati・Karasiyama・Hotei (1762 production)

A town of the foot of a mountain of Gokayama.
born as temple towns and prospered afterwards as market towns and a production center of silk fabrics.


 

Ishikikazari(decorations with the same article)of Hirata(Hirata-shi, Shimane)

It is Ishikikazari that make Buddhist altar fittings with Buddhist altar fittings complete set only with ceramics if it is


Kagura performance on the night, Hayachine, Iwate Prefecture


Fire Services, Goudo, Gihu , Prefecture--


 

Tenjin festival (Osaka-shi)

Having done the event that peripheral people sewed a ship in the place where an opening of a festival carried away a sword of God from a riverbank by a Shinto shrine and drifted to and welcomed.


Gion festival(京都)

In the 11th year of Jokan Era ( 869) the Gion Festival was commenced with a hope that epidemics would be suppressed by the power of gods. It is famous for as many Yamabokos (moving shrines)as 32, decorated with splendid carpets and tapestries which were imported in former days from China, Korea, India, Persia and some European countries.


Kakunodate (Akita)


Yatuo (Toyama)