Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

August 4 (Sat) to 6 (Mon) Tsukuda Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine Grand Festival was held.

The long-awaited three days of the festival once every three years

The portable shrine cruises in Tsukuda, Shin-Tsukuda, Tsukishima, Kachidoki, Toyomi and Harumi towns.

The festival was colored by the vigorous shouts of the portable shrine of the children.

The Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine Grand Festival will be held in midsummer three years later.

Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine is located at 1-1-14 Tsukuda, Chuo-ku.

Please take a leisurely stroll along the grounds of the shrine even on the day off.

I bought a lunch box at the nearby "Meat Takasago"!

・Royal Menchi Bento

・Grilled pork bento

Then there was a new side dish, so I bought it.

New work is a spring roll and a round spherical curry croquette. The croquette on the left side is grilled pork croquette.

The birds were also relaxing.

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Butterflies are also coming.

・The wind from the Sumida River was very refreshing.

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.　

Summer festivals were held in many areas of Chuo-ku, and pageants of tradition and exchange were spread. I think that one of the attractions of this area is that such events are firmly rooted.

At the Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine Annual Festival, which was held mainly in the Tsukuda and Tsukishima districts in early August, many people gathered to enliven the big event once every three years. It was the last festival of the Heisei era, and it was a festival that was more energetic than usual.

It is portable shrine that keeps the centripetal force during the festival. Not only the shrines' large portable shrines, but also their own portable shrine in each town will be very active at this time. The pedestal may have a list of donors at the time of pre-war production. The thoughtful portable shrine is a symbol of the region.

Well, after the festival is over, many regions call portable shrine to the maintenance. After all, it was shaken during the festival, so checking for increments and shaking, and performing detailed repairs is also a preparation for the next festival. A specialist in portable shrine in Tokyo and Chiba will carefully repair it. Because of the detailed work, a gorgeous figure at the festival is established.

Don't you think it's a taste to imagine that the mikoshi that has finished the summer festival is carefully cared for this time?

If you take this opportunity to take an interest in the structure and fine-grained works of portable shrine, I think the festival will broaden your interest.

　Intangible Folk Cultural Property, designated by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, sponsored by the Tsukuda Island Bon Preservation Society, which has been held on July 13-15, is held on August 13-15, one month behind the scenes, due to various circumstances.

Since the Edo period, Tsukuda was designated as a Intangible Folk Cultural Property designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 1976 as the "Tokyo Metropolitan Government" folk performing arts in 1976, when the Japanese lantern was connected to a balustrade area along the banks of the river,men and women of all ages danced to comfort the spirits of its ancestors and gathered clean goods.

Under the light lanterns, including "Autumn Seven Herbs", unique lyrics and unique moderation, and a tasteful dance that repeats back and forth around the tower counterclockwise to match the rhythm of the monotonous turret drum, Sorrow and impermanence drift. The "spirit shelf" installed on the banks of the Sumida River is a set up to welcome unrelated Buddhas coming from the river surface. Bon Odori is inherited today while the surrounding scenery is completely changed. This year, the tasteful voice of the leading person, Tsuneo Iida, resonates.

　On August 11th, the first "Tokyo fireworks festival - EDOMODE" was held at Odaiba Kaihinkoen. 19:10～20:30

fireworks festival is a new summer tradition in the area that replaces the Tokyo Bay Fireworks Festival.

Under the theme of "Edo Mode," a new large fireworks festival that encompasses traditional Edo culture and state-of-the-art Tokyo--the-art entertainment, arts, music, food and technology--and one of Japan's leading pyrotechnicians launched approximately 12,000 fireworks.

Fireworks designed and prommed by children, and on a special stage on the rooftop of Aqua City, Ebizo Ichikawa performed Goemon Ishikawa's new Kabuki dance "Tamaya Kiyochichi" which became Edo's representative pyrotechnician.

From Harumi Ohashi, over the Toyosu Ohashi and the illuminated Rainbow Bridge, vivid large flowers coloring the night sky with loud sound spread, and light shows were developed one after another.