{"id":24739,"date":"2021-03-10T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/4331-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:35:36","slug":"4331-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/4331-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitoichi Bon Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"\u4e00\u65e5\u5e02\u76c6\u8e0a\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b5-__Qb5ZSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Location: Hitoichi, Hachirogata Town<br \/>\nSite(s) of performance: On the street in Kamicho, Hitoichi, Hachirogata Town<br \/>\nDate(s): August 18\u201320<br \/>\nDesignation: Prefecture-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property<br \/>\nCategory: Bon Dance<br \/>\nThe Hitoichi Bon Dance Festival is held on August 18\u201320 in the evenings on the street at the center of the Hitoichi District of former Hitoichi Town (now part of Hachirogata Town). People here do not set up a wooden scaffold or a bonfire to serve as the center of the dancing circle, even though they dance in a circle (or rather in an oval) in any case. The absence of a scaffold or bonfire is believed to reflect the old way of organizing a Bon dance. Some say that the origin of the Bon dance here goes back to the Muromachi era (1336\u20131573), but there is no substantiation of that theory. The Bon dance here is practiced at the time of Obon, but the lyrics of the songs there suggest that it was originally a harvest dance (a dance for good harvests) rather than a Bon dance (a dance to appease the spirits of the ancestors on the days of Obon, when those spirits come back temporarily). Their lyrics include such phrases as \u2018Dance and sing for good fish catch\u2019 or \u2018Dance for rich harvests.\u2019 Similar kinds of Bon dance are also seen in a relatively large area extending from Akita City to the Noshiro and Yamamoto areas.<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/bon\">Bon Dance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Hitoichi, Hachirogata Town Site(s) of performance: On the street in Kamicho, Hitoichi, Hachirogata Town Date(s): August 18\u201320 Designation: Prefecture-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Bon Dance The Hitoichi Bon Dance Festival is held on August 18\u201320 in the evenings on the street at the center of the Hitoichi District of former Hitoichi Town (now &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/4331-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hitoichi Bon Dance<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}