"The great Sakuyama Kannon festival" (osakuyamakannommatsuri) is carried out in masterpiece district located in the halfway up a mountain of Amakusa-shi Ryugatake.
Valuable folk handicraft "large Sakuyama stick dance" that it is said that it was told by Matsumoto Kameyoshi and Iyoji Fukuda and others embedded with the Saigo forces in the case of the 1877 (Meiji 10) Southwestern Rebellion is dedicated, and we have, and throws are carried out, too.
■Date
Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:00 - dance start
We have after dance and throw (it becomes the end for approximately about one hour.)
■Summary of great Sakuyama stick dance
Matsumoto tortoise that great Sakuyama stick dance was embedded with the Saigo forces in the case of the Southwestern Rebellion in 1877 (Meiji 10)
It is said that it was told by Mr. good luck and Iyoji Fukuda and others.
Fukuda is the Saigo forces to achieve old school of private school of Takamori Saigou whom oneself learned from and justice to classmate
We seemed to get job of transportation.
Stick dance that Matsumoto who accompanied Fukuda was good at entertainment, and wore then by event of village
We showed.
Dancer has two ways of sticks of law stick which we likened to quarterstaff and sword which we likened to spear, and knee is seen
Put on obi of colored articles on jacket of cool-looking light cotton cloth for a bathrobe which ruyona has a short, and is long to back with big cord of colored articles; appendix
We wind rashi, white bee firewood.
Whenever chimaki jumps up and down, cord works, and is beautiful, cover of the back of the hands with clasp in the body
It seems that figure which we acquired is tightened with courageousness.
Person of law stick is central, and person of quarterstaff puts interval on both sides, and line up, this is some regular buko
It becomes todenigiyakade courageousness. We bend knee and become half waist, and it looks like we jump up and down and shoot
This seems to understand that art of stick fighting changed definitely in amateurs.