Tenjin Festival - Tenjin Festival

Japanese: 天神祭 - てんじんまつり

This is the annual festival of Tenmangu Shrine, located in Tenjinbashi, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. It is held every year on July 24th and 25th. During the Muromachi period, the festival was held on July 7th of the lunar calendar, but during the Edo period, it began to be held on June 24th and 25th of the lunar calendar. According to the shrine's legend, it began on June 1st or on the last day of June in the 5th year of the Tenryaku era (951), when a spear was floated from the beach in front of the shrine and washed up, where it was purified, and the people of the shrine's domain sent out boats to welcome it. On the morning of the 24th, following the Nagoshi-no-harai ritual, a child prodigy selected from local elementary school students floats the sacred spear down the river in the Hoko-nagare ritual, which reenacts this original legend and is known as the event that marks the start of the Tenjin Festival. The main festival is held on the 25th, and begins at about 3:30 pm when the sacred floats and phoenix palanquins are carried from the shrine to Tenjinbashi Bridge on the Okawa River (formerly the Yodo River) in a land parade led by men wearing crimson hoods playing the drums of Moyooshidaiko. From Tenjinbashi, the parade heads upstream and meets the worship boats of the shrine parishioners that have departed from the upstream to the downstream. At about 7 pm, the boat parade takes place. The original boat parade headed downstream to the Otabisho shrine, and the worship boats would welcome them. The parade of the phoenix palanquin is a lively event, but it is also accompanied by floats playing lively danjiri bayashi music, lion dances, and umbrella dance offerings. Also, from the Genroku period (1688-1704), welcoming dolls such as warrior dolls displayed on worship ships became a highlight, and even today, when they are no longer displayed on ships, the dolls are still exhibited separately.

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Japanese:

大阪府大阪市北区天神橋に鎮座する天満宮の例祭。毎年 7月24，25日に行なわれる。室町時代には旧暦 7月7日の祭りだったが，江戸時代に旧暦 6月24，25日に行なわれるようになった。社伝によれば，天暦5（951）年の 6月1日または 6月みそかに，社頭の浜から鉾を流して流れ着いた場所で禊（みそぎ）を行ない，それを神領民などが船を出して迎えたのが始まりとされる。24日の朝，夏越祓（なごしのはらい）の神事に続いて行なわれる地元小学生から選ばれた神童が神鉾を川に流す鉾流神事は，この起源伝承を再現する神事で，天神祭の開幕を告げる行事として知られる。本祭りは 25日で，午後3時30分頃に，真紅の投頭巾をかぶった太鼓打ちの男たちによる催太鼓（もよおしだいこ）の先導で，神鉾や鳳輦（ほうれん）が神社から大川（旧淀川）の天神橋まで渡御する陸渡御が行なわれる。天神橋からは上流に向かって船渡御となり，途中で川の上流から下流に向けて出発した氏子たちの奉拝船と出会い，午後7時頃に船上祭が行なわれる。本来の船渡御は下流にある御旅所に向かって行なわれ，それを奉拝船が出迎えていた。この鳳輦の渡御を中心とする行事に，軽快な地車囃子（だんじりばやし）を奏でる地車や，獅子舞，傘踊りの奉納などが加わってにぎわう。また，元禄年間（1688～1704）以降，奉拝船に飾られる武者人形などの御迎え人形が見どころの一つとなり，船に飾られなくなった今日も人形だけの展示が行なわれている。

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