Frog Jumping (Festival Event) - Frog Jumping

Japanese: 蛙飛び（祭礼行事） - かえるとび

...A general term for amphibians belonging to the order Anura. Adults undergo complete metamorphosis and have a different form from larvae (so-called tadpoles). The English name is generally frog, but toads that look like toads are often called toads. They are distributed on every continent in the world except the polar regions, and have adapted to and lived in all kinds of environments, from plains to highlands, and from water other than seawater to desert regions. There are various theories on classification, but the general classification is generally divided into about 25 families and 3,967 species, and in Japan there are 3 naturalized species and about 34 native species and 5 subspecies. ...

From [Test Competition]

…The spells are various, but it is common to have the guardian deity of the servant spirit possess a corpse, animal, or object, and then move or bind it to see the results. Some even link the outcome to fortune-telling about the yield of farming or fishing. Today, surviving rituals can be seen in the "Frog Jump" ritual at the Rengekai ceremony at Zaodo Hall on Mount Yoshino in Nara Prefecture, the "Rabbit Jump" ritual at the Pine Festival on Mount Haguro in Yamagata Prefecture, and the "Hashiramatsu" rituals on Mount Togakushi in Nagano Prefecture and Mount Myoko in Niigata Prefecture. [Suzuki Akihide]. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "frog jumping (festival event)" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…無尾目Anuraに属する両生類の総称で，成体は完全に変態し幼生(いわゆるオタマジャクシ)とは形態を異にする。英名は一般にはfrogであるが，ヒキガエルのような外観のものをtoadと呼ぶことが多い。極地を除く世界の各大陸に分布し，平地から高地，海水を除く水中から砂漠地帯まで，あらゆる環境に適応放散してすみついている。分類には諸説があるが，全体を25科3967種類ほどに分けることが多く，日本には帰化種3種と在来種約34種･5亜種が分布する。…

【験競べ】より

…その呪法もさまざまあるが，使役神の護法を尸童（よりまし）や動物，物体などに憑依（ひようい）させ，動かしたり呪縛（じゆばく）したりしてその結果を見ることがよく行われ，中にはその勝敗を農作や漁獲の豊凶占いと結びつけたものもある。今日，奈良県吉野山蔵王堂の蓮花会の〈蛙飛び〉，山形県羽黒山の松例祭（しようれいさい）の〈兎飛び〉，長野県戸隠山，新潟県妙高山の〈柱松（はしらまつ）〉行事などにその残存儀礼を見ることができる。【鈴木昭英】。…

※「蛙飛び（祭礼行事）」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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