Takayama Festival/Hida Takayama Information Site -2Takayama-

Although the origin of Takayama Festival is not certain, it is shown clearly that it started in 1692 after 1586.It is already recorded that there was a Sanno Festival performed at once in 3 years.The festival imitated Akasaka-sanno festival and the Kanda Myojin festival of Edo. Although the stall was forbidden by Edo 1721, although Sasahoko and the Dashi, a stall is living in Takayama.Then, an import of the trick doll changed the stall in Takayama from the single layer of an Edo form to multistory. It is called that the form peculiar to present Takayama was established in during 1804 after 1830. The ten stalls are specified to be the material race cultural property of a country, and the festival procession and the event are specified to be the immaterial race culture material of a country.

Spring Festival 【Sanno Festival】-April 14-15

Spring Takayama Festival is colored a cherry tree and fresh green (Sanno Festival). It is the festival of Hie shrine ensconced in Shiroyama, Takayama-shi. It is said that the god of a festival is the Ooyamakuinokami and the origin is that Taira tokisuke who is the Load of a temple deified Hiyoshisannou. Hie-jinja serves as the patron saint of the south half of the city area centering on Miyagawa of Takayama-shi. An event begins from the lottery festival on March 1, and determines the stall tow order of festival that day.

【Shiraku Festival】- April 14
A stall is pulled and arranged during the morning and the night festival which is called separation starts with burning light on a stall warehouse and a stall. Lighting each stall and singing a song "from a high mountain",a night festival takes a round of a neighborhood, and separates to each group.The appearance of the light which shakes in the darkness of the night invites a spectator to the fantastic world.

【Honraku Festival】-April 15
A festival reaches the climax. From the morning, among 12 stalls which pulled in the predetermined place ,three stalls (Sanbanhiki,Ishibashidai,Ryujindai) announce the work of a doll with a mechanism, and are exposed to applause in the open space in front of Otabisyo.

神楽台 Kaguratai	三番叟 Sanbaso	麒麟台 Kirintai	石橋台 Syakkyotai	五台山 Godaisan	鳳凰台 Hououtai

恵比須台 Ebisutai	龍神台 Ryujintai	崑崗台 Kongoutai	琴高台 Kinkoutai	大国台 Daikokutai	青龍台 Seiryutai

Autumn Festival【Hachiman Festival】-October 9-10

Takayama Festival of autumn held when trees carry out autumnal leaves (Yawata festival). It is the festival of Sakurayama-hachimangu built in order to pray a victory when a mystery man called Ryomensukuna who have 2 heads and 4 hands and 4 legs is made to conquer. God of a festival is Ojin-Tennou who is god of fighting. Hachimangu attends an Betuhyosya, and serves as a patron saint of the north half east of Miyagawa of Takayama-shi, and the Takayama stall hall which always displays a stall is located in the precincts of a temple.

【Honraku Festival】-October 9
11 stalls pulled on the commemoration road in front of a shrine, and at night, putting a light into a paper lantern, and pulling in a predetermined route. The light which flickers at a stall is reflected in the surface of river, and an illusion as if the flow at the time returned is felt.

神楽台 Kaguratai	布袋台 Hoteitai	金鳳台 Kinpotai	大八台 Daihachitai	鳩峰車 Kyuhosya	神馬台 Jinmatai

仙人台 Sennintai	行神台 Gyojintai	宝珠台 Hojyutai	豊明台 Homeitai	鳳凰台 Hououtai

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