Chapter 16: The March of the Summer Festival
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In the early morning, the air gradually began to fill with the hot and warm atmosphere of summer, and more and more people gathered in the streets without a single sound, but the atmosphere was very strong and faintly revealed the wind and rain before the war.
Today, Ise City, Mie Prefecture, where it is located, is an ancient Tenjin Festival, which is an annual festival dedicated to the god of Tenmangu Tenmangu and the god of learning, Sugawara Michizane (Sugawara Michi, the main god of Tenmangu Shrine, is a scholar of Chinese literature during the Heian period (equivalent to the Tang Dynasty in China) in Japan. In those days, it was not surprising that a great nobleman was a high-ranking official, but it was not unusual to be a high-ranking official as a scholar. At his most glorious time, Sugawara Michizane was the right minister (second prime minister) and was a scholar official in the imperial court. No, the Tenjin Festival in Ise City, Mie Prefecture, of course, is dedicated to Amaterasu, the ancestor of the emperor.
When the sky is white, the gorgeous yamahoko stop at the entrance of the shrine, and during the festival, each town will build a gorgeous yamahoko, and the interior and exterior are quite elaborate and magnificent, representing the wealth, beauty, tradition, and unity of each ward. The entire festival is a parade of 32 giant Yamahoko cars, each of which is more than 6 meters tall and has two tiers and a high pole that resembles a spear. The sculptures and carpet patterns on the crotches include a variety of mythical beasts and birds, such as the green dragon, the white tiger, the lion, the unicorn, the red bird, the phoenix, and the deeds of historical figures, and the ornamentation and embroidery are very gorgeous.
Natsume, dressed in a small hunting suit, sat in the middle of the second layer of the 32 Yamahoko Shoko, and the parade began in earnest as Natsume held a long knife to cut a long rope blocking the road as he faced the rising sun on the seashore. Along with Yamahoko are traditional performers such as shrine maidens playing kagura (music played during worship to the gods) and bunraku (puppet shows), and the 32 cars behind Yamahoko are lined with portable shrines with phoenixes and other decorations on the eaves, various floats, and priests sitting on horses.
The summer festival begins in earnest, and at the junction of one town and another, a portable shrine carrying hundreds of people rushes out of the street at the other end of the town, and at the top of the portable shrine stands a strong man wearing a striped feather weave with his head tied to a cloth belt, and his chest and breasts exposed. When the new portable shrine collided with the previous portable shrine, hundreds of strong men carried huge and gorgeous portable shrines and pushed each other, and finally after the two portable shrines were docked, the strong men below the sedan chair began to wrestle with the portable shrines, and the strong men standing above the portable shrines tried to throw each other down in various ways such as wrestling, judo, and karate. The battle drums next to the portable shrine are in unison, and the more fierce the battle is above, the denser the drum beat becomes, and the wrestling below is also to make the opponent's portable shrine bumpy and win, desperately trying to stabilize your own portable shrine while hitting the opponent's sedan chair bearer. The rapid drumbeat, wave after wave of cheering and cheering, and the loud shouting and crashing sound of the sedan chair bearer made everyone onlookers can't help but boil their blood. At this moment, the people of Ise City are immersed in the Japanese saying: "The purpose of life is sacrifice, and the form of sacrifice is carnival, so the sacrifice expresses the true side of the deeply suppressed human heart, and life is carnival." Especially when the unknown death is approaching at any time, the carnival reflects its madness and true 'carnival', and releases its emotions to the fullest. With cheering for the strong man on the opponent's portable shrine fell down and was caught by the person carrying the sedan chair, the supporters of the victorious side cheered ecstatically and hugged the victorious portable shrine and continued to accelerate to catch up with the giant mountain in front of him, of course, the loser had to withdraw gloomily and wait for the next Tenjin Festival to come back to win the game. When catching up with the procession in front, a group of people representing Shengli Town immediately changed the first batch of sedan chair bearers who were a little out of strength after a fierce battle, and after changing hands, they hurried home to rest and wait for the next change of hands.
The team of priests led by Sato's grandfather on horseback, the team of priests who looked solemn and neat wore uniform white hunting clothes and hakama, and walked in step by step with a wooden wat in hand, and next to it was a team of shrine shrine maidens led by Sato's grandmother, and young women in witch costumes swept away the previous seriousness, full of youthful and beautiful colors, and full of vitality. After that, 3,000 people dressed in court attire from the Heian period in Nara were followed by a group of people who suddenly dreamed back to the Heian period in Nara, a dream era full of aristocracy and legends.
The portable shrines on this side were replaced one after another, the atmosphere of the scene became more and more enthusiastic, cheers and shouts were higher than the waves, and near noon, the front of the 32 gorgeous and magnificent giant Yamahoko formed a procession that finally walked through one town after another to reach the seashore, at this time, the Yamahoko team stood on the shore and divided into two teams to vacate the middle position, followed by the final winning shrine of each town, these people stood in the middle of the Yamahoko team after putting down the portable shrine on the side, and waited for something with their hands behind their backs. Soon, surrounded by priests and shrine maidens, as well as 3,000 people dressed in court attire from the Heian period of Nara, the priest carried a gorgeously decorated parade, and the shrine was a ceremony of the Rikudo Goshi who was invited from the outer shrine of Ise Jingu when the sun was rising, and when he arrived at the beach, he was taken by a strong man who was waiting here carrying a portable shrine and lifted the shrine above his head.
In the afternoon, when the sun crosses the middle line, more than 100 large ships come from the sea, and when the boat approaches the seashore, several red boats come out of it, carrying the big red totem taiko drum, and the taiko drum rings in unison and urges the gods on land to carry the ferry boat upstream, which is the drum in the festival. With the drumbeat getting faster and faster, the gods on the shore slowly move from the land to the sea on the same richly decorated boats, and the evening boat ferry begins, and in this festival called "Kamiko-shi", the entire sea is filled with puppet boats, drum boats, illuminated boats, and singing bands. The sea is decorated with traditional music and is like a beautiful mythical world. The large ship facing the shrine and about 100 boats swim against the current.
When the mikoshi was ushered into the sea, Natsume was finally freed from the long sword, and Inari and Amaterasu looked at the hot sweaty Natsume and asked with concern, "Is it hot?" How does Natsume feel? Natsume took the wet towel handed over by Amaterasu and wiped the sweat stains on his face and replied happily, "Well, this dress is too thick so it's hot, but I'm very happy, it's something I've never experienced before, it's full of freshness." Looking at Natsume, who was blushing with excitement, "Let's go, let's go home and wash up and rest, and we'll come back in the evening."
When they returned to the ancient house, everyone felt a burst of coolness, and the summer heat was instantly swept away. At noon, I thought I was too tired and had no appetite to hastily solve lunch, and after hastily solving lunch, the three of them fished out the cold and delicious watermelon soaked in the courtyard, and happily dug the inner flesh of the watermelon with a spoon, and the heat swept away to make people feel comfortable from the inside out. A leisurely nap began, and Natsume, who had been tired, fell asleep as soon as his eyes closed, and when he woke up after a good night's sleep, it was the afternoon.
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