I have seen the 'Dogeza Festival', which has a history of 300 years and is strictly prohibited from standing.
In the drama '
Niimi City Dogeza Festival
http://www.niimi.or.jp/dogezamaturi/
Poster affixed to shops around the venue.
We arrived at the site at 10 am and are scheduled to start at 13:00, so there are no spectators yet, but there are embankments on some parts of the road and preparations for the festival have begun.
There was a lot of clean salt on the embankment.
In the open space in front of the Gotenmachi Center, tents are set up to guide festivals and sell food, and the people in charge of each are preparing.
When I entered the Gotenmachi Center, there was a room displaying materials related to the Dogeza Festival, so I visited the inside.
If you take a closer look at the model of the Dogeza Festival ...
It seems that no one is lying down on the ground, but you can see the convention that you have to sit down and tour.
It seems that the press and guards can stand up, so if your dog barks, hurry up and run away.
Once I returned to the square and looked around the tent, I noticed Sakaman (680 yen including tax).
When I decided to eat it instead of lunch and opened the bamboo skin, there were 4 muddy sake manga.
The bean paste is made from Niimi Btsutyuu white azuki beans, and the skin is made from rice flour mixed with sake, giving it a unique aroma of muddy sake.
A group of young people are waiting when you go to Funagawa Hachiman Jingu , which is the starting point after finishing your stomach.
According to the story,
The procession held at this festival is preceded by a main unit called the weapon procession, followed by a procession of local groups, and 10 minutes before the start, the people who participate in the weapon procession take a commemorative photo in front of the hall of worship.
Participants other than the weapon procession also gathered at the starting point, such as the mikoshi in charge of each.
People in the precincts begin to sit down, at this point it seems that they are still in a hurry.
The state of the departure of the weapon procession.
People who are waving the stick at the beginning both ends is responsible for or to sit in mind the people who are standing at the time through which the weapon matrix in the people who called the squire inspector (enshrinement observation), standing residence is people are Therefore, I am careful to 'sit there', and the noise that I mentioned earlier disappears and there is a solemn atmosphere.
Your prepaid (on payment in advance) and the people 'over to the under, over to the bottom', which is called with a bamboo tube went through while issues with.
Inspectors of the villagers are also stationed in the middle of the procession and are on the lookout. I was thinking of moving to another place when the beginning passed, but I couldn't move in this atmosphere.
Gouma (On'uma) is passing.
There is a god on this horse, and the locals greet them with their hands together. It's different from the dogeza, which is prone, but this figure is impressive.
After seeing off the weapon procession by a total of 64 people, the procession such as mikoshi will start next, but it is okay if you do not sit in the procession other than the weapon procession.
The difficult point of going down the steep stairs is waiting right after departure, so I'm ahead of the line here. However, if you stand and move, you will be warned, so be careful not to stand out in the middle.
I went ahead to another place and found a house that had a place to sit on a goza.
Some people were sitting early and waiting in line.
What I was interested in here was what was wrapped in white paper.
When asked, this is an offering to God and will be given to each group in the procession that will pass from now on. It seems that cash is acceptable, but there are many groups, so many people wrap rice.
Yuru-chara Momochi (Okayama), who I met on the way to the Gotenmachi Center area, which is said to have the most people, poses for 'Shae' when I ask for a photo.
Explains the manners of the tour to a group of tour guests, such as 'Please do not stand when passing through the weapon procession'.
After waiting for about 15 minutes, the weapon procession came, and there was a person standing, so I was careful to 'sit down'.
Following the beginning, Mima also came, and I was explaining to the tour guests, 'When Mima passes, I will worship in the palm of my hand,' so I was looking at 'Is everyone worshiping all at once?' ...
Everyone took out the camera and took a picture of Mima.
From the back of the weapon procession, a group carrying a portable shrine comes and passes by vigorously while swinging the portable shrine from side to side.
Children also participate.
The junior college students I met at Funagawa Hachiman Shrine also came.
A princess also appears with her maid.
When each group has a person in charge with a 'zaru' and approaches the person who is preparing offerings ...
You can put offerings in the colander.
When all the groups passed by and went to the weapon procession at the beginning, they were resting at the turning point, and the groups participating in the return trip were resting at the same place, but the groups participating only in the outbound trip returned to their area. went.
After a break of about 20 minutes, the return trip to Funagawa Hachiman Jingu begins, and a high school student who happened to be on the way to school also sits down and waits for the procession to pass.
I will take a position on the street where the old-fashioned townscape remains.
Mima has arrived.
There were many locals here, so I saw him worshiping a horse.
Then Mikoshi came, but everyone seemed tired.
To return to Funagawa Hachiman Jingu, the arrival point, you need to climb the steep stairs, and when you wait, you can see the beginning of the weapon procession, then ...
The elementary school students who were playing started to sit down on the ground.
A person inspector general of the villager gently says, 'You don't have to be a dogeza.'
Children released from Dogeza watch the passage of the weapon procession while sitting in the gym, and the stairs from here are the crucial moment.
I will squeeze my strength and climb up with the feeling that it is another step.
I was wondering what to do with Mima, but Mima went up the gentle slope.
The mikoshi also go up one after another.
In front of the hall of worship, the prepaid person who was walking at the front stood in the form of remaining as it was, and shouted 'below, below' until the last person in the weapon procession arrived.
All the lines have arrived, the procession is over, and the participating junior college students are taking a commemorative photo.
This offering was collected by junior college students, and I gathered a lot of colanders, but I was absorbed in taking a commemorative photo, so there was a tragedy here ...
Because they were placed side by side with the colanders of other groups, another group who misunderstood all of them as their own brought back the colander of the junior college student.
The name is 'Dogeza Festival', but in reality it is not necessary to go to Dogeza and there are some parts that are a little out of tune, but the tense tension that drifts as the procession passes is considerable, and I sit on my knees. It makes me feel like I'm sitting on the ground. Regardless of the recent 'Dogeza boom,' it was a magnificent festival held by locals in keeping with the traditions of the past.
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