{"id":2135,"date":"2019-04-10T21:48:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2019-04-13T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:33:24","slug":"vol48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/en\/event\/vol48\/","title":{"rendered":"vol.48\uff1aWhat\u2019s the \u201cYasurai Festival\u201d!? One of the three eccentric festival in Kyoto."},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of festival or ceremony in Kyoto.
\nDo you know the best three odd festival in Kyoto?
\nThese are\u2026\u2026
\nFire Festival of Kurama, Ox Festival of Uzumasa, and Yasurai Festival in north ward.
\n 
\nThis weekend, Yasurai Festival will be hold in north ward in Kyoto on April 14th.
\nIt\u2019s been loved by locals since Heian era (794).
\nToday we\u2019d like to share about what Yasurai Festival is.
\n <\/p>\n

\u3010What\u2019s the Yasurai Festival?\u3011<\/h5>\n

Yasurai matsuri Festival is also called \u201cChinka-sai\u201d or \u201cYasurai-bana\u201d which is held on the second Sunday of April every year at Imamiya Shrine, Genbu Shrine, Kawakami Daijingusha Shrine in Kyoto.
\nYasurai matsuri Festival is designated as an important intangible folk cultural property of the country.
\n 
\nYausrai matsuri Festival starts in the latter half of the Heian era.
\nAt that time, people were suffered from the epidemic often prevailed during the spring cherry blossoms.
\nWe suppose that people took a cold because the temperature of the night and day is so different as well as these days.
\nNowadays if people take a cold, they visit doctor and given the medicine. However people in Heian era thought the reason people got sick or the bad things are happened, it was caused by evil god.
\nOmiwa jinja shrine in Nara held \u201cChinka-sai Festival\u201d to quell the plague.
\nSo four shrines;Imamiya Shrine, Genbu Shrine, Kawakami Daijingusha Shrine, Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto learned from this ritual and started Yasurai matsuri Festival to wish to calm the bad plague epidemic.
\n 
\nImamiya Shrine
\n 
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\n <\/p>\n

Contents of the festival<\/h5>\n

\u201cYasurai Matsuri Festival\u201d is held every second Sunday in April every year. (Except Kamigamo Shrine)
\nUjiko (shrine parishioner) dressed as small demon, ogre, musicians etc, and it will be a queue. These roles are arranged according the age.
\nThe central presence of the queue is a huge red umbrella (\u201cHanagasa\u201d: flower hat) which seems to be 2 meters in diameter.
\nQueues including redheads and black hair demons dance to accompany music, walk through the area of Ujiko and quell the plague.
\nOgre dances like jumping while striking a bell and a drum.
\nOgre costumes and dances are flamboyant hair style and fashion, and it feels contemporary. It is thought that such a great demon is one reason why this festival is said to be one of the three most eccentric festivals of Kyoto.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What to see<\/h5>\n

\u201cHanagasa\u201d itself is quite conspicuous.
\nIt is decorated with cherry blossoms, camellia, willows, hylomecon.
\nIt is said that getting under this umbrella will expel evil.
\nBecause it seems that visitors along the roads are all under the umbrella, it seems to be enjoyable together.
\nHanagasa itself is “yorishiro” refers to an object that divine spirits are drawn or summoned to.
\nSo people thought they put the evil spirit to the umbrella and it will die while the flowers are wilted.
\nThat means getting under the umbrella is not to get luck from diety.
\nIt\u2019s to dispel the evil spirit with putting on the umbrella.
\n 
\n\"\"
\n 
\nAlthough the festival to be held at Imamiya Shrine is the most famous, there seems to be an official document that Genbu Shrine is the birthplace of \u201cYasurai Matsuri Festival\u201d.
\nAnd three shrines hold the festival on the same day.
\nIf you visit three shrines, you should compare with the difference.
\n 
\nThis festival is believed that if the day of Yasurai matsuri Festival would be sunny, every other festivals in Kyoto must be sunny. If it would be rainy, it must be rainy.\u201d
\n 
\n\"\"
\n <\/p>\n

Imamiya Yasurai Festival<\/h4>\n

Route:
\nLeaving Konenji Temple (12:00)\u2192Arrival Imamiya Shrine (15:00)
\nAddress:
\n21 Murasakinoimamiyacho,Kita-ku,Kyoto City, Kyoto
\nAccess:
\n20 minute walk from Exit#1of Subway Karasuma Line Head to Kokusaikaikan \u201cKitaoji St.\u201d
\n7 minute walk from the bus stop \u201cFunaokayama\u201d offered by City bus (1\u30fb\u53178\u30fb12\u30fbM1\u30fb204\u30fb205\u30fb206). This bus stop is located at Exist #3 of Subway Karasuma Line Head to Kokusaikaikan \u201cKitaoji St.\u201d
\n <\/p>\n

Genbu Yasurai Matsuri<\/h4>\n

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\nRoute:
\nLeaving Genbu Shrine (8:30)\u2192Making the tour of the shrine parishioner\u2019s houses \u2192Arrival Genbu Shrine (18:00)
\nAddress:
\n88 Murasakinounrin’in-cho,Kita-ku,Kyoto City, Kyoto
\nAccess:
\n8 minute walk from the bus stop \u201cDaitokujimae\u201d offered by City bus (1,12,204,205,206,\u53178,M1,101,102). This bus stop is located at Exist #3 of Subway Karasuma Line Head to Kokusaikaikan \u201cKitaoji St.\u201d
\n <\/p>\n

Kawakami Yasurai Matsuri<\/h4>\n

Route:
\nHolding Kawakami Daijingu Ritual (11:00)\u2192Leaving Shrine (12:00)\u2192Making the tour of the shrine parishioner\u2019s houses \u2192Arrival So Shrine (14:00)\u2192Arrival Imamiya Shrine (15:00)
\nAddress:
\n35 Nishigamo MinamiKawakami-cho,Kita-ku,Kyoto City, Kyoto
\nAccess:
\n15 minute walk from City bus (9) \u201cNishigamo Shako mae\u201d from Kyoto St.
\n 
\n 
\n <\/p>\n

Do you need more information?<\/h4>\n

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\nYou can install the application from the following URL.
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