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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Sakaero matsuri
Text
A rite held the evening of February 9 at Mononobe Shrine in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. Parishioners (ujiko) gather at the hall of worship (haiden) and chant, "Daimonmae no sakuranbo, yae ni saite ho o tareta, sakaero sakaero" ("Cherry tree before the great gate, with boundless blossoms on your branches hanging low, may you flourish and flourish") while stamping in unison on the floorboards. The louder the sound, the better; it is said that a bountiful harvest is ensured if the sounds should carry as far as Minichi Shrine (in neighboring Kariwa Township). There any number of examples of rituals in which stamping on floorboards functions as music. Four people perform a dance called the gattaku mai as a welcoming salute to the mask of the kami wherein they stamp on the floor in place of drums (taiko) at the winter festival (fuyu matsuri) held January 4 on the slopes of Tenryū Village, Ina District, Nagano Prefecture. The dance can also be thought as the proper etiquette for greeting the kami.
— Mogi Sakae

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