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昨日は美佳の保育園の公園で盆踊りに参加しました。
盆踊りは午後7時から9時半まで行われました。
暑さをしのぐ。
5歳以上の保育園児と一緒に美佳もやぐらに登って踊りました。午後8時になると盆踊り一時休憩
で盆踊りに参加するすべての方が並んでガリガリ君アイスを無料でいただきました。美佳はとて
も興奮して、はしゃいでいました。初めて盆踊りに参加したのは2年前で、ママ友に誘われて、
2年間で夏になると一緒に参加してました。
盆踊りは夏にあるお祭りで、本来は宗教行事のひとつでした。地域によっては夜店が出たりして、
祭りの雰囲気を強く出したり、企業や地域の商店街などのイベントとして行われることが多くな
りました。本来お盆に帰ってきた祖先の霊たちを迎え送るための念仏踊りとして始まった宗教行
事で、誰もが参加でき祖先への思いを馳せ供養するための踊りだったため、今でも覆面やお面を
付けて踊る所もあるようです。
屋台に盆踊り、そして色鮮やかな浴衣！夏祭りの多くは7月初旬から始まり、お祭りムードは8月
にピークを迎えます。この時期は来る日も来る日も日本全国どこかで夏祭りが開催されている。
Yesterday I took Mica to participated in the Bon festival dance at the park beside the nursery
school which my daughter Mica is going to.
The Bon festival dance was performed from 7 pm to 9:30 pm. We joined in at 7 o'clock,We bought
some shaved ice at the stall to stand the hot summer night in the park.
The general style of the Bon festival dance is that a tower is set up at the center of an open
space; a caller atop the tower sings a folk song for a dance, and participants dance to the song
as they circle the tower.
Mica climbed up to the YAGURA and danced with the same nursery school's friends of 5 years
old or older.After that about 8:00 pm we line up to have some Garigari ice cream for free at the
Bon festival dance for a temporary break.Mica was very excited and entertained.
It was two years ago when we first participated in the Bon festival dance and was
invited by my Japanese friend,We joined together in summer for two years ago.
The Bon festival dance is a Japanese traditional summer festival.
Actually it was originally one of the religious events.Depending on the area, the night shop
has come out to enhance the atmosphere of the festival, and it often takes place as an event
such as a company or local shopping street and the open place or a park beside the school.
Bon dance is a religious event that began as a Nembutsu dance to receive the spirits of ancestors
who had originally returned to Obon, and since it was a dance that everyone was able to
participate in, and to save the mind of the ancestors.
Bon festival dance and the stalls, and colorful yukata!
Many summer festivals begin in early July, and the festive mood peaks in August. Is held
somewhere in Japan throughout the coming days of this period.