[重陽] 角館まつり神明社参拝 3西部 2ｰ先輩 (On-float dancing at shrine front) 2018/09/07 3K

This movie shows a pair of women dancing on the Yama float on the first evening of Kakunodate festival on September 7, 2018. The dances are dedicated to Shinmeisha, the supreme shrine of the Kakunodate district. All 23 distirict 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 buiding 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.
　2018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。西部地区は三番目です。
　全23地区が順次参拝するので、全体が終了するまでに八時間程度はかかることから、最初から7，8件を目処に撮影しましたが、色々制約があって、公開できるものは少ないのが残念です。
　この動画は、先輩組の動画をまとめています。随分達者な手踊りです。
　確か、「二本竹」と思うのですが、間違っていたらごめんなさい。