Danjiri Festival 2007 - Danjiri Pull

Taken from the Kishiwada City Homepage : "The citizens of Kishiwada are proud to hail the Danjiri Matsuri of Kishiwada as the greatest of its kind in Japan. Townspeople, from the youngest to the oldest, take part in the festival with duties allotted to them according to age, and with each danjiri team organized and managed by a particular "Cho",(an area within the community covering a certain number of blocks). Few examples of traditional cultural festivals of this size and of this degree of organized participation exist in Japan today.

Each float is hand-made, entirely of zelkova wood. It weighs about 4 tons, is 3.8 meters high, 4 meters long and 2.5 meters wide. The draw-rope is from 100 to 200 meters in length and is pulled by as many as 500 to 1000 people"

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• Danjiri
• Festival
• Japan
• 2007
• だんじり
• まつり
• 岸和田