OCHI KOCHII


  • Photographer
    Reiko Yagi
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    Spring 2016

Sakamoto, the land where Shinto continues to blend with Buddhism. Here the Hiyoshi Sannou Festival has continued for roughly 1200 years, worshipping Tenka Taihei and Gokoku Houjyu, and the gods and goddesses of marriage and birth in various rituals featuring portable shrines that are carried for a number of days from the beginning of March. The heads of the four districts allocate responsibilities to the men of each household, and each year the act of assuming a festival role means the youth who support their village by participating will mature into adulthood. Men hobnob together as they exchange drinks, eat festival food with gusto, and charge ahead while carrying the portable shrines. Women steadily work in the background, bonding as they all support their families. By engaging in the festival, people magnify their faith, deepen their community ties of kinship and by staging the festival, the rites continue to be transmitted to the next generation.

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