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Hashidate Festival (Hashidate matsuri)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Mid-Summer
***** Category: Observance
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Explanation
July 24
Ama no Hashidate Festival, Ama no Hashidate Matsuri
天の橋立祭
Monju Bosatsu Ceremony, Monju-E 文殊会
. Monju Bosatsu 文殊菩薩 Manjushri
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Ama no Hashidate 天橋立 Amanohashidate
Located in Wakasa National Park
This area features one of Japan's three most scenic places.
This park spreads across Wakasa Bay and includes Ama-no-hashidate, traditionally regarded as one of the three most famous views in Japan. Its appeal lies in the ever-changing beauty of the seashore and the abundant riches of the sea itself.
Located in Miyazu City, Kyoto Prefecture, Ama-no-hashidate is a sandbar that protrudes out into Miyazu Bay from Fuchu-Ichi-no-Miya, separating the bay and the Aso Sea. It is an exceptionally scenic location that links Monju with Fuchu across the bay. Some 8,000 specimens of Japanese black pine grow on this 3.6km stretch of sand, and in the summer it becomes a popular swimming area. In the pine forest one can find Iso spring water, designated one of Japan's 100 best spring waters, Hashidate Myojin shrine, and stone tablets inscribed with
haiku by MATSUO Basho and YOSA Buson.
Also of sightseeing interest are the man-powered wheeled taxis.
Ama-no-hashidate, seen from Monjuyama Park.
This view is called the flying dragon view because the row of pine trees looks like a dragon flying into the sky.
All images Copyright. 1997 Kansai International Public Relations Promotion Office.
Kehi-no-Matsubara (Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture) is regarded as one of Japan's three great pine forests, along with Miho-no-Matsubara (Shizuoka Prefecture) and Niji-no-Matsubara (Saga Prefecture). Around 17,000 specimens of 200-year-old red and black pine stand in this broad forest park that runs for 1.5km along a seaside beach of white sand. It offers a splendid stroll along a specially constructed footpath. The five lakes of Mikata that run from the town of Mihama to Mikata include Hiruga and Kugushi, saltwater lakes connected to the sea, and Mikata, Suigetsu, and Suga, steaming lakes where salt water and fresh water mix.
Each lake offers scenery that differs delicately from the others'. Approximately 60 species of fish are said to live in the five lakes, and such unique and simple fishing methods as tataki-ami ("beating net") and mondori ("somersault") fishing are practiced. Takahama Town is noted for Shiroyama Park, which protrudes into the bay. Because Wakasa Bay looks like a mirror when seen from the caves there, the so-called Myokyodo, or clear mirror cave, is regarded as a place of scenic beauty along Wakasa Bay.
http://www.kippo.or.jp/culture_e/nature/park/wakasa.htm
歌川広重 Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869)
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The main festival is held on July 24 at the temple Chion-Ji in Kyoto, to celebrate the statue of Monju Bosatsu.
The temple is at the entrance road toward Ama no Hashidate, and the shrine in honor of the Hashidate Deity (橋立明神) can be seen from there too.
はしだてまつり: 智恩寺
Monju Bosatsu
Wisest of the Bodhisattva. In Japan, students pay homage to Monju in the hopes of passing school examinations and becoming gifted calligraphers.
Monju Bosatsu
by Mark Schumacher
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Worldwide use
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Things found on the way
. Wakasa Daruma ― 若狭 だるま
Laquer and achate stone
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More external LINKS
Take a wonderful photo tour :
source : uemura_usisi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanohashidate
http://www.amanohashidate.jp/area_all.html
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HAIKU
Thousands times of autumn
Colored wind passes the temple
Enchantment of Wakasa Buddhas
Etsuko Yanagibori
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大江山 いく野の道のとほければ
まだふみも見ず 天の橋立
Ooeyama Ikuno no michi no To kereba
Mada fumi mo mizu Ama no Hashidate
By Oe Mountain
The road to Ikuno
Is far away,
And neither have I beheld
Nor crossed its bridge of heaven.
60 - Koshikibu no Naishi 小式部内侍
. Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Poems 小倉百人一首 .
Her mother was the famous Izumi Shikibu and her father Tachibana no Michisada.
Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部, b. 976?)
was a mid Heian period Japanese poet. She is a member of the Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals (中古三十六歌仙, chūko sanjurokkasen). She was the contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, and Akazome Emon at the court of Joto Mon'in.
Izumi Shikibu was the daughter of Oe no Masamune, governor of Echizen.
... While at the court, she married Fujiwara no Yasumasa, a military commander under Michinaga famous for his bravery, and left the court to accompany him to his charge in Tango Province. She is said to have lived long, outliving her daughter Koshikibu no Naishi, but the year of her death is unknown. The last Imperial correspondence from her was in 1033.
Her tomb is at the Monju temple, now Chionji.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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Koshikibu uses three place names of the Tanba and Tango 丹後 region in her poem.
Ooeyama Oni Densestu 大江山鬼伝説
Demon Legend of Mount Oeyama
in the Tanba disctrict of Kyoto. There is also a famous Noh-Play about the legend.
A fair maiden is kidnapped by a demon and carried away to Mount Oeyama. Minamoto no Yorimitsu (948 - 1021) has a famous sword, Yasutsuna, which he has blessed for this occasion and then goes for the demon ... the rest is happy history.
. Oni Manju cake from Oeyama 鬼饅頭 .
. Saka Doji 酒呑童子 a Sake Yokai Monster .
Shuten-dōji 酒呑童子 Shuten Doji 酒顛童子, 酒天童子, or 朱点童子
- Introduction of the Oeyama Legend -
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Ikuno 生野 the Ikuno plain
In the Tamba region (Tanba 丹波), with the river Yuragawa 由良川 and Hajigawa 土師川
These two places are on the way to
Amanohashidate, the "bridge of heaven".
Ama no Hashidate, by Hokusai 葛飾北斎
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大江山秋七草の籠にあふれ
Ooeyama aki nanakusa no kago ni afure
Mount Oeyama -
the seven herbs of autumn
overflow in the basket
Nukina Eiko 貫名英子
source : kigo_aki.html
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