Encyclopedia of Japanese festivals: kamakura festival reappears samurai style?

Kamakura, located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu Island, is an important place in Japanese history. At the end of 12, Yuan Laichao, a military commander, established the Kamakura shogunate here, which created the samurai regime and became a prosperous political center in Japan in the early Middle Ages. The Kamakura Festival, which is now held every year in Kawaoka Hachiba Palace in Kamakura City, is recreating the legacy of Kamakura. Then today's traditional festival will introduce Kamakura Festival to everyone and reproduce the samurai style of that year.

Every year from the second Sunday to the third Sunday in April, Kamakura Festival is held in Hachiba Palace. /kloc-In the 20th century, Kamakura and Kyoto were both political and cultural centers of Japan, and Hachiba Palace was a famous historical temple representing Kamakura. On the "Kamakura Festival" held at the shrine, a parade composed of sedan chairs and bands made the whole city of Kamakura lively and boiling.

The main programs during the Kamakura Festival are "Silent Dance" at Bagan Palace in Tsuoka on the second Sunday and "Yabusame" on the third Sunday. "Quiet Dance" was staged in the "ballroom", and the dance drama reappeared the beautiful and famous dancer Shizuka Gozen dancing in front of the enemy with his love for the military commander Yuan Yijing.

In Japan, Jing is a well-known tragic heroine, because she used to be Yijing's lover. After being forcibly separated, she unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy military commander Yuan Laichao. Moreover, regardless of his own tragic experience, Jing showed his yearning for "serious" everywhere in the dance, which angered the enemy. Not only was he imprisoned, but his children were also killed.

"Yabusame" reproduces the riding and shooting skills of Japanese medieval warriors. The so-called Yabusame originated from Sun Tzu's Art of War, which refers to the action of riding a galloping horse and aiming at the target. Before the Middle Ages, samurai were required to ride on galloping horses and still have the ability to bow and shoot arrows. This is a training method that combines equestrian and archery to enhance their physical fitness. This is the origin of Yabusame.

Yuan Laichao, who established the Kamakura shogunate, devoted himself to the research and popularization of this kind of vector, and launched the "Wandering Horse God" in 1 187. It is said that the Yabusame held in Yuan Dynasty was held in the shrine as a ritual to worship the gods, in order to pray for the country's antai, and also to further improve the morale and belief of the samurai, that is, the spiritual strength of the samurai. Under his impetus, from the second half of12nd century to the first half of14th century, Yabusame spread like wildfire among samurai, which was quite popular.

The ceremonies and performances dedicated to "Yabusame" have continued to this day. The "Yabusame" performance of Kamakura Festival was held at the Baimagong Shrine in Tsuoka, which is about 260 meters long from east to west. A bamboo frame target (square fir board) is set every 70 meters on both sides of the racecourse, and there are three * * *. After seeing the red and white fan signal, the shooter in hunting clothes rode into the racecourse, galloped on the racecourse about 260 meters long, aimed at the target and drew his bow.

The performance of "Yabusame" takes about ten seconds. The shooter shot an arrow. When passing a target, the arrow that has just been shot must just fall on this target, and the next arrow must be shot on the next target. There was no hesitation. As Yabusame is a sport with people's good wishes for world peace, the arrows and targets will be carefully treasured as amulets.

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