重陽19 角館まつり 駅前若者 秋田おばこ (On-float dancing at shrine front) 2019/09/07

This movie shows a pair of women dancing on the Yama float on the first evening of Kakunodate festival on September 7, 2019. The dances are dedicated to Shinmeisha, the supreme shrine of the Kakunodate district. All 23 district floats come to the shrine front one after another for the powerful float drivers to attend the reporting routine on the rice farming mediating shrine's main building on the hill, while the women performs traditional dance sequences barehanded except an ornamental fan or a red striped towel as accompanied by a standard of drums, flutes, and small gongs with intermittent yells.
The floats arrive here from their home town assembly garage after cruising the city streets driven only by pure manpower, paying annual tribute and loyalty to their local historical landlords since Edo era of Samurai on their way.
The festival as a whole is designated as one of the Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Japan.
　2019年9月初旬、秋田角館祭りの山行事で、各地区の山が順次神明社に詣で、男衆が神社に参拝している間、鳥居前で演じられる飾山囃子を取材したものです。
　沢山撮影したのですが、色々悪条件があって、通しで披露できるのは、大変少ないのです。
　駅前若者は、随分後の方で、先頭からかれこれ4時間以上たって真夜中になっていました。