Summer is coming soon. To say summer… is festival! I like festivals very much. There are many festivals in Kumamoto. I have never been to Kumamoto festivals, but in many festivals, I will introduce “Fujisaki shrine Autumn festival” first of all. It is an annual festival held in Fujisaki shrine which is the shrine in Kumamoto city. This big festival is held in September for five days. The last day will be September’s third Monday (Respect for the Aged Day). The festival’s main event is the parade which is performed on the last day. In parade, dedicating parade which is composed by portable shrine with ”Zuibyou” and “Kazariuma” attract people’s attention. By the way, ”Zuibyou” means soldiers who accompanied with the general. “Kazariuma” means dressed horse which was ridden by general. In recent years, “Kazariuma” have been contributed by as many as sixty groups. This dedicating parade is bustling thing which is called with musical accompaniment, “Do-kai,Do-kai “ and ringing something like a bugle. It goes through Kumamoto city.
Secondly, I will introduce “Yamaga tourou festival”. Tourou means a garden lantern. This festival is held in Yamaga city and Omiya shrine’s festival which is in Yamaga hot spring. This event is done during August 15th to August 17th every year. In this festival, a folk song ‘Yohehobusi’ is played, and with this music, women dressed in Yukata walk around Yamaga city putting a golden garden lantern on her head. This golden garden lantern is made only gold and silver paper. This festival is one of the famous festival in Kumamoto same as ‘Fuzisakihachimanguu syuuki reitaisai’ and ‘Myouken festival’ in Yatushiro city. There are some story about the origin of this festival. Story of the one was that when Keikou emperor was traveling Kyusyuu, deep fog appeared near lake and he and his men could not see anything, so they had a hard time. Then, Yamaga citizens lead them to Omiya shrine with torch. This came to be a garden lantern and was dedicated to shrine. Another story, in Muromachi mid period, the time hot spring disappeared, Yumei houin prayed for god and hot spring gush out again. After his death, praying for good luck in heaven, people dedicated a garden lantern to shrine.
Thirdly, I will introduce ‘Myouken festival’. It is held in Yatsushiro city, Myouken shrine. I think this Kumamoto citizens are proud of this festival. This festival is called one in three major festivals in Kyuusyu. The others are Hakozaki shrine festival in Fukuoka, and Suwa shrine festival in Nagasaki. Myouken shrine festival parade for god’s happiness is a prefecture designated important intangible cultural asset. And famous program is lion performance. Of course, it is not a real lion. There are two people inside the lion costume, and they move like a real lion! There are same performances in my prefecture, Okinawa. When I saw it at the first time, I was afraid of the lion, because I was only one year old or younger than that. But now, I really like to see the performance. It is very cool and fun. I decided to go to many festivals in Kumamoto this year.
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