“On the Masks of Hanamatsuri Festival, Central Japan : A Case Study of Futto, Toei Town.”

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  • 花祭りにおける「面」の扱われ方について - 愛知県北設楽郡東栄町古戸の事例から -
  • ハナマツリ ニ オケル メン ノ アツカワレ カタ ニ ツイテ アイチケン キタシタラグン トウエイチョウ フット ノ ジレイ カラ

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Hanamatsuri, one of Japanese traditional folk festivals which has attracted scholars and tourists, in famous for its elaborated rituals and dances. It is well known that various masqueraders come out and perform mythical stories in this festival. Although several reports of these masqueraders and their masks have been published, original first-hand data on these masks is still inadequate. This paper aims to offer ethnographic descriptions on the masks of Hanamatsuri festival and make a small contribution to Hanamatsuri studies as well as to study on Japanese masking tradition. Ethnographic descriptions here are based on my fieldwork done in Futto, Toei town, Aichi prefecture. In this paper, I report how people treat or handle their masks at Hanamatsuri festival today. I also would like to give some analyses on topics concerning with these masks, such as mutual relationships among these masks, their setting places in the sacred Kanbeya room, procedure of setting them up for the festival and other traditional customs for keeping and using these masks. Thus this paper offer some points of view for connecting Hanamatsuri studies with anthropology of masks and masquerades.

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