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I'm a german girl living for 3 month in Japan. Here I have been in a school to learn Japanese a bit. Right now I#m doing an Internship for 1 month.
ドイツのハンブルグ出身。8月に語学留学で来日し、現在御供所の会社で一ヶ月間インターンとして働いています。好きな物は肉とフルーツ、苦手な物はシーフード。好きなコミックはNARUTO、ONE PEACE、BLEACH。
Following the Yamakasa Line 1
- 2010年10月29日
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Today I got one of the greatest tasks ever :D
My new "quest" is to walk the route of the Yamakasa Festival. This is a summer festival where at the end many many men carry a big Yamakasa. It is said that this event was created to protect from a plague of the mid-thirteenth century.
The Yamakasa festival is held from 7th of July to 15th of July. Before the start a preperation is made. This year it started at the 18th of July.
This is for example a video of the preperation:
Normally a big Yamakasa (10m high) and a small are build. Just the smaller one will be used at the race.
The route of the race is 5 km long:
The light blue points show where big flags stands. The teams have to get around it. The streets there are very small and so it is very difficult. Also a yamakasa isn't so light!
Here are some pictures of this years Yamakasa festival:
(www.hakata-yamakasa.net)
If you want to have more information you have to visit this side:
Today my route was from the start-point to the green star (Hu-Connect).
Do I have to say that today is a really nice weather :D
First of all I looked at a building near the Kushida Shrine. I havn't got so much time so I didn't went in. It must be a museum for tha Yamakasa festival.
Here are some pictures of this years Yamakasa festival:
(www.hakata-yamakasa.net)
If you want to have more information you have to visit this side:
Today my route was from the start-point to the green star (Hu-Connect).
Do I have to say that today is a really nice weather :D
First of all I looked at a building near the Kushida Shrine. I havn't got so much time so I didn't went in. It must be a museum for tha Yamakasa festival.
Then I got to the Kushida Shrine. It looks very beautivul inside. Even a special well is infront of the "main" shrine. Just a few pictures:
At this shrine you can also see a Yamakasa:
(left: front; right:back)
(left: front; right:back)
It looks really great :) This one must be really heaven because everything is made of wood (I think). Just try to carry it around and you will fail...Maybe that's nothing for women ^^
Unfortunatelly I havn't been there in July...Just the imagination is great :D
Ok and now I followed all the men of the Yamakasa group (not really ^^). On my way I met a man named Hiroshi. We talked a bit. First Japanese and later we changed to English. That was so much easier than talking a whole new language :D After the grammer I know was finished and I didn't understood him anymore he tried to speak English.
But I don't know if he understood everthing :S
The funniest thing of all is that he is a menmber of the Yamakasa festival. This year he was the one who said that the whole group should start. He was really proud of it :)
Also he works in a school which is on the Yamakasa route. So we talked a bit :)
But than I had to hurry finishing my mission today.
On my way I passed the subway station Gion next to the first "flag". The whole district must like this event. I even read that many people all over the world come to visit this festival. Just because of my thinking of Yamakasa I saw this:
Unfortunatelly I havn't been there in July...Just the imagination is great :D
Ok and now I followed all the men of the Yamakasa group (not really ^^). On my way I met a man named Hiroshi. We talked a bit. First Japanese and later we changed to English. That was so much easier than talking a whole new language :D After the grammer I know was finished and I didn't understood him anymore he tried to speak English.
But I don't know if he understood everthing :S
The funniest thing of all is that he is a menmber of the Yamakasa festival. This year he was the one who said that the whole group should start. He was really proud of it :)
Also he works in a school which is on the Yamakasa route. So we talked a bit :)
But than I had to hurry finishing my mission today.
On my way I passed the subway station Gion next to the first "flag". The whole district must like this event. I even read that many people all over the world come to visit this festival. Just because of my thinking of Yamakasa I saw this:
It is the same form as the carriing-construction of the Yamakasa ^^
Today was the first time I really realised it :)
Than I crossed the street and entered Gokusho (left picture below).
On the next crossroads I went to the right side.
At the end of the street the Yamakasa had been carried around a flag (right privture below).
Today was the first time I really realised it :)
Than I crossed the street and entered Gokusho (left picture below).
On the next crossroads I went to the right side.
At the end of the street the Yamakasa had been carried around a flag (right privture below).
Here are two pictures of the other two flag I already would have passed. The left one is in the area of the Kushida Shrine. The right on is on the crossroad near the Gion station.
(www.hakata-yamakasa.net)
After that they had to go back and follow the street.
(www.hakata-yamakasa.net)
After that they had to go back and follow the street.
As I went on I saw a bucket. Than I remembered what Ryu-san had told me. This buscket is used to give the carrier of the Yamakasa a little "shower".
As you can see on the map of the beginning the route of the Yamakasa passes my working place. That's where my route of today ended:
It was a very nice day. Work was great after I came back. Hopefully next week will be great as well. But I think it will :D
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