The annual festival of Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine was held once every three years for four days from August 3 to 6 this year. Published in Ansei 4 (1857), Hiroshige Utagawa's 100 famous views of Edo, depicting the festival, and the large banner in the center is very impressive.
The pillar supporting this large banner was dug out of Tsukuda moat on July 1st. The work that began in the morning was that the pillars were lifted by a crane truck after 4:00 pm in order to dig up a total of six places, a braided tree that supports the pillars called "Daki". It was a long work.
Once, two pillars were wrapped near Tsukuda moat and four were dried near the Tsukuda Machikado Exhibition Hall.
Is this pillar different in shape? According to a local caretaker, the round pillars were from Edo and the square pillars were from Showa.
Later, according to the "History of Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine Reitaisai festival", four of the six pillars were found to be new in 1987.
The pillar, which completed its role at the festival, was moved into the moat on August 12.
And today, on August 26, pillars and daki were buried for the festival three years later.
I was worried about the trigger of the new pillar, but a local person told me that the car was hooked on the rope at midnight and damaged. I want the new four to carve history like the pillars of Edo.
The fact that a large banner with the spirit of the locals has been fluttering in the blue sky of summer since the Edo period, was clearly understood by digging from the moat and knowing the burial work.
