2009年10月30日金曜日

There was an autumn festival in Sekigahara. The festival was held at Hachiman shrine in Sekigahara on October the 4th. It was started in the Edo period and has been held every year since then. The history of the festival and what people do there will be written.

In the Edo period, there was a house fire in Sekigahara. The fire caught hundreds of houses and destroyed a large part of the town. A lot of people were killed. After the tragedy the shrine was built to enshrine the God of fire, so people hold a festival annually to wish that it never happen again. Most of festivals in Japan originally have such kind of reason related to a God.

It is very important to know that what we do in the festival. The festival has been a good event for children living in my town because a lot of stalls participate, so they enjoy having fun with their friends. To worship a God, some adults wearing Kimono walk around the town with Japanese lantern called chochin and every house is required to hang a chochin up in the entrance of their houses. We will have fireworks as a main event at the end of the festival.

I hope you have had some ideas about our festival. In the next week we have another festival for the Battle of Sekigahara. I am sure that a lot of people from other prefectures will come to this festival. It is going to be a big event.

5 件のコメント:

  1. I didn't know such a big festival was held. Why didn't you tell me?
    By the way, I love history, especially the war period.
    Anyway, that would be fantastic if I could go there next year.

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  2. i agree with you. i think that it is important to know origin of traditional events too. especially, your city has special history. i would like to visit sometimes.

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  3. wow I didn't know Sekigahara has such a big festival.
    It's really interesting festival which is held next week!
    I want to join it one day.haha

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  4. It's interesting topic, and I can image how beautiful scene during the fastival.
    I'd like to visit there one day:)

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  5. Yes, many people think Sekigahara existed for only one historical period, the Battle. But as you've shown us, there were many other interesting times in history that people still remember there.

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