The Shiga specification immaterial folk culture goods

The Edo period and a water inlet developed as a center of the politics of an area, economy, and culture as the 50th post town in Tokaido, and castle towns of Kato Mr. 25,000 stones. Water inlet 曳山祭 is the festival 創り出(ed) by the power of the townsman who lives in this town between the Kyoho era years in the middle of the Edo period, and shows prosperity of a town, and a townsman's spirit. a townsman not only enjoys the feature of this festival, but it is in the place in which the spectator from the neighboring country neighborhood is assembled -- a round of visits and the Mizuguchi ば of 曳山 -- carrying out -- etc. -- it can heap up from various production. So, preparation of a festival also becomes large-scale and can be begun several months before.
The "lot picking ceremony" which determines the turn of the passage of 曳山 and 纏田楽 is held, and before the 10 Japanese degree of a festival, 曳山 of a round-of-visits person on duty is called "ground passage", is pulled, carries out the start, and confirms the tune of 曳山 on April 8.
April 19 is a "small evening festival", a mikoshi is decorated with it, it decorates 曳山 with a paper lantern in each neighborhood, plays eve-of-a-festival ばやし, and enlivens the feeling of a festival in a shrine.
曳山 for which the "gold spring festival" on April 20 left each neighborhood at the morning, and 纏田楽 gather in the place first called "the younger brother (とんど)" of 旅所, and decorate 曳山 with "ダシ" of boast, all the persons concerned strike and 渡行 which go into a water inlet shrine together is performed. It seems that, as for the spectacle of the rich emotion whose flower of a cherry tree is distracted by the Mizuguchi ば or 曳山 which carries out, is in ズム and 渡行 in an avenue of pines, a time picture scroll is seen as it were.
渡御 (go away from a shrine) of a mikoshi is performed after a divine work, and prosperity also serves as the climax from an afternoon. It waits for the return of His Majesty (come back) of evening and a mikoshi, 曳山 takes down "ダシ", and an end is put to a gay festival, the "return mountain" which returns and goes to each neighborhood being performed to a paper lantern, and announcing a beautiful figure to it in fire.