Episode 12: Miyazawa clearing (Kaikon) and Yubanakagura

　It was the beginning of the Edo period. There was a samurai named Ishikawa in Kamiyabe-mura. At one point, he ordered three houses to clear new land. It was a land about 10 km away from Kamiyabe, with Osugi thrive in the mountains, kaya and thorns were bustling in the field, and inhabited foxes, raccoons and poisonous snakes that were not approaching humans.
　The clearing is a difficult task, and everyone woke up in the dark in the morning to cut down trees, dig up roots, and cut down the grass at night based on the moon and stars. did.
　Due to these work, the fields increased someday, and eventually there were more than a dozen branch houses. Therefore, the people celebrated the god of agriculture on this land, and in the spring, they decided to dedicate kagura, which wishes for good harvest.
　This is Yuka Kagura from Sanno Inari Shrine in Miyazawa. After the reclamation, the pupils piled cut wild grass on the grounds of Sanno-sama to make a stag, and put a cauldron to boil water. Around the furnace, a bamboo that shows east, west, north and south, is set up, and the shimeka decorations are stretched. Eventually, as steam is coming around, the priest (Kannushi), who became the angel of God, puts on the face of a tengu (tengu) face and appears.
　When the steam that burns up with the burning flames, the congratulatory words (Norito), and people are attracted to God when they are immersed in boiling water, they are attracted to God. He seemed to be attracted. When the priest finally releases a lucky arrow from all sides, the ritual also reached its climax, picking up the arrow that passes through the steam of boiling water, and is blessed with good luck of this year It means that I was absorbed in.
　This ritual can no longer be seen.

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