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    1) The document discusses the history and transformation of Hanamatsuri, a late medieval rural festival in Japan. 2) It describes four phases in which the festival evolved from being a 3-day religious festival to a more abbreviated 2-day celebration that spread to other villages. 3) The festival involved inviting gods through dance and performances, with different roles for children, teenagers, and elders over its multi-day duration. Rituals were often held in response to natural disasters.

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    1) The document discusses the history and transformation of Hanamatsuri, a late medieval rural festival in Japan. 2) It describes four phases in which the festival evolved from being a 3-day religious festival to a more abbreviated 2-day celebration that spread to other villages. 3) The festival involved inviting gods through dance and performances, with different roles for children, teenagers, and elders over its multi-day duration. Rituals were often held in response to natural disasters.

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    Hanamatsuri: A late-medieval rural festival and its Edo-period transformation von

    Mark Teeuwen

    Intense and expensive actions on fetivals. Book abt kyotos history, seen through festival eyes. A lot of
    different ways to see festivals. Play, patronage, piety, … hanamatsuri in Oku-Mikawa, in the
    mountains, a few villages (14) which practies it today. Many disappeared. 24 hours one festival. Dax,
    night, day. Starts with inviting smn to a danceplace. Flowermaster collecting water and takes it to the
    dancinghall. Paperstreamers represent buddhas. And there are the locals and the first dance does
    one person on dirtfloor. Hanayomai – flowerdance. Dance around the plant. There are also demons
    (oni), which dances around the plant. Fire s right outside. Invites Amatarasu in night. They dance until
    day and get splasehed with water, which is holy. (yubayashi) ou have to pay 3000 Yen.

    4 phases:
    1. 14/15.century : Shimotsuki kagura with Kumano roots
    children (boys) get important roles in the village. Mostly well living ones
    2. 16. Developed into 3-day Okagura festival
    less social but religion festival
    3. 17. Okagura abbreviated into 2day hanamatsuri, spread southwords

    4.

    Okagura procedure: inviting gods, dancing, sarugaku, children and teenagers paying gods, then gods
    are sent off … second part: inviting gods on top of the mountains, dancing, sarugaku, done by elders,
    then sending gods off, after crossing river Mostly done, when there was an natural catastrophe
    2 or 3 years ago

    Hanamatsuri: someone who isn’t married,doesn’t have the second part, eating one of bowl of rice
    before crossing the bridge (like the dead), than going and meeting the demons, bridge is made pure,
    many rituals with bridges

    piety
    only documents that gives idea are the hana-dayuu, from there reconstruction shugendo discourse
    on ritualized death-and-rebirth, what was the festival actually abt. To what degree was what the
    meaning.

    Hana no somon (Incanation of the flower9 Onyu 1776


    Older version is only for men, but this is for men and women. To not be stuck in the river, when
    crossing it you have to do some things like building shrines and so on, or you can say you did
    something to do hanamatsuri (having lotus or so) and you can cross it and will survive. Young children
    maybe will die, but if not,parents decide they now can do the next kagura dancing next time there is
    something like this. Then they have to do it often. Ritual or festival?

    Play
    Focus on dancing, elements from okagura (demons come from the mountains, which you have to
    raufen with: looks funny and people like to joke abt it.)
    Villager from 1928: heres the demon, lets do a tsubi.” Tsubi refers to womens genitals.

    Patronage
    Permission needed to do a festival, if you are ill you need to sponsor kagura, 1856, “we vowed to
    offer kagura after 1850 floods and earthquake”

    Moneyflows, kagura accounts, Income about 10 to 17 ryoo(6 different incomes and outlays),
    hanamatsuri was about 4.8 ryoo, maybe it was invented because its cheaper?

    Hanamatsuri played a social role because there weren’t many structures and it helped the different
    villages, that had to share the same mountain and so on

    “Conclusion”
    Shimatsuki kagura in wider area: villager reborn as kamiko – similar rituals survive in parent villages in
    hanamatsuri area
    Okagura: 50% founded by kago (all villagers, male, female and outsiders), reward not in village life but
    next life
    Hanamatsuri: annual village festival derived from okagura, also in “pioneer hamlets”

    Shifting balance of piety, play and patronage

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