In the hot summer, the main festival once every three years that Ujiko from the Tsukuda and Tsukishima areas waited for. On the three major music festivals of Edo, Tsukuda Bayashi, six large banners were held, including the Lion Head Miyade and the highlight "Miya portable shrine Funa imperial procession".
The main festival (Reitaisai festival) was scheduled to be held last year in 2011, but this year has been extended by a year since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Due to the aging of the octagonal portable shrine produced in Tenpo 9 (1838), there was the first "with spirit" and "pilgrimage" of the second generation portable shrine Shingu, completed last year (2011).
A town block of Tsukuda 1-chome that preserves the original shape of Tsukuda Island during the Edo period. There is Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine, and shrine parishioner at 1-chome is Miyamoto. The festival is prepared and operated by Sumiyoshi-ko, and Miya portable shrine, which travels around 1-chome, is carried by only members of Sumiyoshi-ko.
At the L-shaped Tsukuda moat at 1-chome, six large flags (approximately 18m in length) and a hug that supports the pole at the main festival are Tsukuda 1-chome town for preservation. It is buried under Kobashi, and it was dug up one month before the festival, and a large flag was set up one week before the main festival.
At the same time, the festival Japanese lantern of Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine fell on the eaves of the town's houses, and the Kuroki Torii and Mataki were temporarily installed on the east and south sides of 1-chome. "Oriya", a reed making that houses the town portable shrine and the lion's head, is also built here and there, and the young people of Sumiyoshi Ko (Wakaishi), a large young people, and a caretaker in a yukata dressed in a new style for the festival. There is also a Kariya waiting for the festival, enlivening the atmosphere of the festival.
"The Lion Head's Palace,"
At 10:00 am on the 4th (Sat), it is said that grabbing the lion's head's nose will benefit, and a young Miyamoto (Wakaishi) will run at a high speed from the first gate on the Sumida River toward two lion heads waiting on the grounds. The lion head kneaded the precincts by young people and tried to go to the music stage of Kagura Hall. It was a magnificent lion head of a man.
"Ship imperial procession,"
In the past, it was said that the underwater imperial procession entered the Sumida River while carrying the Miya portable shrine, and a large portable shrine was carried into the sea by naked young people at the festival of Tsukuda Shima Sumiyoshi, one of the 100 best views of Edo in Hiroshige Utagawa. The underwater imperial procession was no longer held at its last festival in 1962.
In 1990, at the main festival, Miya portable shrine was changed to a boat imperial procession with a Goza boat, descending the Sumida River from Tsukuda, turning around Toyomicho on the southern tip of the landfill in the Tsukishima area, going up the Asashio Canal and turning around River City 21 to return to Tsukuda.
On the 5th, the boat imperial procession was carried by a young man by a young man to the Goza boat from the Sumida River terrace under the statue of the girl, Midori no Kaze, and at 7:00 a.m., the tugboat slowly pulls the Goza boat carrying Shinto priesthood and Miyaportable shrine. It's an impressive scene. A large audience came with applause.
After about an hour's boat imperial procession, the Goza boat appeared through Chuo-ohashi Bridge at 8:00 am, and applause came from the waiting audience.
When the ship arrives, another ship lays on the Goza boat, and the young people who ride it board the Goza boat, carrying Miya portable shrine. With a large crowd watching, portable shrine disembarked and the ship imperial procession finished safely.
The festival of Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine, which has been continued since the Edo period. I would like you to convey the spirit of the people of Tsukuda Island for a long time as an important traditional event in Chuo-ku.
