Английская Википедия:Gion Matsuri

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox holiday The Шаблон:Nihongo is one of the largest and most famous festivals in Japan, taking place annually during the month of July in Kyoto.[1] Many events take place in central Kyoto and at the Yasaka Shrine, the festival's patron shrine, located in Kyoto's famous Gion district, which gives the festival its name.[1] It is formally a Shinto festival, and its original purposes were purification and pacification of disease-causing entities.[2] There are many ceremonies held during the festival, but it is best known for its two Шаблон:Nihongo processions of floats, which take place on July 17 and 24.[3]

The three nights leading up to each day of a procession are sequentially called Шаблон:Nihongo, Шаблон:Nihongo, and Шаблон:Nihongo. During these Шаблон:Transl evenings, Kyoto's downtown area is reserved for pedestrian traffic, and some traditional private houses near the floats open their entryways to the public, exhibiting family heirlooms in a custom known as the Шаблон:Nihongo. Additionally, the streets are lined with night stalls selling food such as Шаблон:Transl (barbecued chicken on skewers), Шаблон:Transl, Шаблон:Transl (fried octopus balls), Шаблон:Transl, traditional Japanese sweets, and many other culinary delights.

History

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The parade held in Kyoto in the 1920s

Ancient years

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Traditional wooden floats in Gion Matsuri 2014.

The Gion Festival originated during an epidemic as part of a purification ritual (Шаблон:Transl) to appease the gods thought to cause fire, floods, and earthquakes.[4] In 869, when people were suffering from a plague attributed to vengeful spirits, Emperor Seiwa ordered prayers to Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the god of the Yasaka Shrine. Sixty-six stylized and decorated halberds, one for each of the traditional provinces of Japan, were prepared and erected at Shinsen-en, a garden in the south of the imperial palace, along with Шаблон:Nihongo3 from Yasaka Shrine. This practice was repeated wherever an outbreak of plague occurred. By the year 1000, the festival became an annual event and it has since seldom failed to take place. During the civil Onin War (under the Ashikaga shogunate), central Kyoto was devastated, and the festival was halted for three decades in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.[3] Later in the 16th century, it was revived by the shogun Oda Nobunaga.[3]

Over the centuries, some floats have been destroyed or otherwise lost, and in recent years several have been restored. Float neighborhood associations sometimes purchase antique tapestries to replace worn or destroyed ones, or commission replicas from industrial weavers in Kyoto, or design and commission new ones from the weavers of Kyoto's famous traditional Nishijin weaving district.Шаблон:Cn When they are not in use, the floats and regalia are kept in special storehouses throughout the central district of Kyoto, or at Yasaka Shrine.

The festival serves as an important setting in Yasunari Kawabata's novel, The Old Capital, in which he describes the Gion Festival as one of "the 'three great festivals' of the old capital", along with the Festival of Ages and the Aoi Festival.[5]

Gallery

Schedule of events

Шаблон:Unreferenced section Following is a list of selected annual events in the Gion Festival.

Yamaboko floats

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Niwatoriboko float, one of the first to begin the parade. Festival-goers take turns getting on the float through a side building.

The floats in the Шаблон:Transl parade are divided into two groups, the larger Шаблон:Transl ("halberd") and the smaller Шаблон:Transl ("mountain"), and are collectively called Шаблон:Transl.[1] The ten Шаблон:Transl recall the 66 halberds or spears used in the original purification ritual, and the 24 Шаблон:Transl carry life-sized figures of Shinto deities, Buddhist bodhisattvas, and other historic and cultural figures.Шаблон:Cn All the floats are decorated with diverse tapestries, some made in Nishijin, Kyoto's traditional textile-weaving district, while others have been imported from all over the world. In fact, thanks to a 1993 survey of the Gion Festival's imported textiles by a team of international textile conservationists and collectors, its unique textile collection is renowned amongst textile professionals worldwide.[6] Musicians sit in the floats playing drums and flutes.[4] The floats are pulled with ropes down the street and good luck favors are thrown from the floats to the crowd.[4] Шаблон:Transl were listed on the Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties in 1979, and on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009.

On the evening of July 17, hundreds of men carry Yasaka Shrine's resident deities around diverse parishioners' neighborhoods in portable Шаблон:Transl shrines to the Шаблон:Transl, a temporary dwelling in central Kyoto.[7] It's believed the deities purify all the neighborhoods along the way. They reside at the otabisho for a week, between the two floats' processions.[7] On the 24th they are taken back to the Yasaka Shrine to their permanent dwelling.[7] On the way back to the shrine, the procession stops at Shinsen-en, the original site of the first rituals in the year 869, the former Imperial garden.

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Niwatoriboko float at night

Each year, the neighborhood associations which maintain the floats draw lots in early July. This lottery determines the order in which the floats will appear in the July 17 and 24 processions. These lots are presented in a special ceremony at the commence of the processions, during which the Mayor of Kyoto dons the robes of a magistrate.

The Naginata Hoko depicts a Шаблон:Transl wearing a ceremonial robe and wearing a golden phoenix, chosen as the sacred page of a deity from among merchant houses in Kyoto. After several weeks of special ablution ceremonies, he lives in isolation from the effects of contamination (such as inappropriate food and the presence of women) and is not allowed to touch the ground, so he is placed in a wagon. At the start of the Шаблон:Transl on July 17, the Шаблон:Transl cuts the shimenawa with a swing of his sword.

Hoko floats

  • Weight: about 12 tons[1]
  • Height: about 27 meters[1]
  • Wheel diameter: about 1.9 m
  • Attendants: about 30–40 pulling during procession, usually two men piloting with wedges[1]

Yama floats

  • Weight: 1,200–1,600 kg[7]
  • Height: about 6 m
  • Attendants: 14–24 people to pull, push or carry

See also

Notes

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External links

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 Шаблон:Cite journal
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
  3. ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Шаблон:Cite journal
  4. ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 Шаблон:Cite book
  5. ↑ Kawabata, Yasunari. The Old Capital. Trans. J. Martin Holman. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. 131. Print
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  7. ↑ 7,0 7,1 7,2 7,3 Шаблон:Cite journal
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