…When bad weather threatened the autumn harvest, epidemics spread, or natural disasters continued, people would suddenly start pounding rice cakes, setting up kadomatsu pine decorations, pulling sacred ropes, changing clothes, and going out to New Year's celebrations, and this would spread to the neighborhood one after another. This was done in hopes of escaping the dreadfulness of the year and ushering in a new, prosperous year, and is also called kasakushogatsu (temporary New Year) or hayarishogatsu (popular New Year). It was often done before modern times, and was usually held around June. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "Karisaku Shogatsu" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…天候不順で秋の実りが危ぶまれたり,悪疫が流行したり,天変地異が続くと,ときならずだれが始めるともなく餅を搗(つ)き,門松を立て,しめ縄を引き,服装を改めて正月礼に歩くことが起こり,次々に近隣に流行することがあった。これはその年の忌まわしさから脱し新たな嘉年を期待して行われるもので,仮作正月(かさくしようがつ)とも流行正月(はやりしようがつ)ともいわれる。近代以前にしばしば行われたことで,時期的には6月前後が多かった。… ※「仮作正月」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。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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