Exciting! Danjiri Matsuri in Kishiwada, Osaka | ３年ぶり迫力の岸和田だんじり祭り♪2022

3年ぶりのだんじり祭りに行ってきました！
特にやり回しは圧倒的な迫力です。ぜひご覧ください！
The Kishiwada Danjiri Festival began in the mid-Edo period and boasts over 300 years of history and tradition.
The festival has been passed down from generation to generation by the people who were born and raised in this area, and has been nurtured to this day.
During the daytime, the delicate and dynamic floats are pulled by the people of Kishiwada, and at night, visitors will be entranced by the magnificent figures of the floats decorated with beautiful lanterns.
Jiguruma (Danjiri) is a type of yatai or "float" used in shrine festivals. They are mostly seen in the Kansai region. It has a unique gable roof divided into two parts, large and small, and is decorated with many carvings, embroidered curtains, gold ropes, lanterns, bonbori, flags, banners, and other ornaments. It is mainly made of zelkova, and pine is used for the panels.
Kishiwada is famous for its "Danjiri Festival. The floats, weighing 4 tons, run at full speed, and when they turn a corner, they do not slow down like the floats of other festivals, but run briskly and make a right-angle turn. It is truly dynamic, but extremely dangerous. The youth group that pulls the float forward, the foreman who triggers the turning, the rearman who acts as the helmsman, and the carpenters who give the signal to the rearman.
The Kishiwada-style Danjiri is a running work of art that costs an average of more than 100 million yen to produce. Danjiris are made from large zelkova trees over 300 years old. There are not so many good quality zelkova trees that are over several hundred years old. Therefore, the cost of the material is high, costing tens of millions of yen.
The highlight of the Kishiwada Danjiri is the Yarimawashi! The Danjiri, which can weigh up to 4 tons, is moved while running, and the procession makes many laps around the designated course without losing momentum. The overwhelming speed and power of this event cannot be seen anywhere else.
The people who ride on the roof are called carpenters, and they are the flower of the danjiri. It is approximately 3.8 meters high and weighs 4 tons. Danjiri festivals are held to celebrate good harvests and catches, and are usually held on the day before Sports Day (the second Monday in October).
The Kishiwada Danjiri Festival, which boasts a history and tradition of approximately 300 years, is said to have its origins in the Inari Festival held in 1703 by Nagayasu Okabe, the feudal lord of Kishiwada, who invited Fushimi Inari of Kyoto to the castle's San no Maru area to pray for a good harvest of the five grains (rice, wheat, beans, millet and Japanese millet). The festival is said to have originated from the Inari Festival.
Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri Festival Site:
www.city.kishi...
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