2009年10月29日木曜日

The Autumn Festival

The Naked Festival is composed with four festivals.
First, the starting of festival is done eight days before the main festival starts, and it makes town holy.






Second, there is a Hamagori. It is when three days before the main festival starts in the Fukude seashore.
Participants clean themselves for the main festival.
The precinct is cleaned by seawater and sand at the festival which is done a day before the main festival.



Finally, all 28 groups make four big groups, parades in town and gather to a hall of worship.
Then traditional dance, the Oniodori is rolled out in it, the town is putted out lights with a sign at 00:30, and participants dashe in the pitch-dark town. And then the Naked Festival ends.

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