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Become a participant: A study on owners of folk custom

  • 日本硏究
  • 2015, (38), pp.541-566
  • Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Published : February 20, 2015

中里亮平 1

1중앙대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

My thesis is about the experience of becoming a participant in a ritualized festival in modern Japan, taking the Kurayami festival at Ookunitama Shrine in Fuchu City, Tokyo, as my main example. Kurayami festival perform May 3 4 5 6,and its participant are over ten thousand.Kurayami festival has 8 mikoshies and 22 dashi and 6 huge drams, and its history beyond 600.Kurayami festival is one of the most famous festival in Japan. Conclude only that contemporary festival participant and is not.Various elements , such as the audience, mass media, area residents , another festival , the police.I want to think contemporary festival.Is required by reviewing the traditional festival in contemporary festival. Kurayami festival is adequate presence for thatI will of course be looking at the experience of people who participate in such events, but also the experience of those who become participants and how the ritual actually operates from the inside. I hope to propose and open new lines of thinking on these matters from the perspective of research into rituals and folklore.

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