Bamboo splitting

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Bamboo splitting festival

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Early Spring
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

"bamboo splitting festival, takewari matsuri
竹割祭 (たけわりまつり, 竹割り祭)
gogan shinji 御願神事（ごがんしんじ）
making a rope snake, daida nai 大蛇綯い（だいじゃない）

In Ishikawa prefecture, Kaga city.
To pray for Gokoku hojo .. 五穀豊穣 for a Bountiful Harvest of the Five Grains.




During this “bamboo-splitting festival”, young men dressed in white split bamboo poles and later drag a snake made out of large rope around the shrine as part of a ceremony to drive away evil spirits. They beat the ground with bamboo poles of two meters length in a recreation of the legendary killing of snakes in ancient times.


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Things found on the way

Bamboo Art in Asia

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HAIKU


splitting the bamboo
like a prayer ...
the Way of the Gods

Gabi Greve, 2005


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Related words

***** Bamboo in various KIGO

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