{"id":24832,"date":"2021-03-10T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/626-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:36:04","slug":"626-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/626-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishimonai Bon Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"\u897f\u99ac\u97f3\u5185\u76c6\u8e0a\u308a\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fwUrBNAHqDM?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: Nishimonai, Ugo Town<br \/>\nSite(s) of performance: Nishimonai-Honch\u014d Street<br \/>\nDate(s): August 16\u201318<br \/>\nDesignation: State-Designated Important Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property<br \/>\nCategory: Bon Dance<br \/>\nAccording to the oldest records available of dancing at Nishimonai, sometime during the Sh\u014d\u014d period (1288\u20131292), when the priest Genshin established Za\u014d Gogen Temple (present-day Mitake Shrine), the dance was performed in the premises of the temple to pray for bumper crops. As for the origin of the Bon dance here, one theory advanced is that after the lord of Yashima, \u014ci Gor\u014d Mitsumasa, lost in battle and committed seppuku in Nishimonai Castle in 1593, his men and women performed the Bon dance to appease his soul, which became the origin of the Nishimonai Bon Dance. Another theory says that after Nishimonai Castle was destroyed by the Mogami clan\u2019s army in 1601, quite a few warriors settled in at Horimawari and Maeg\u014d near the ruins of the castle and performed the Bon dance to console themselves. The striking feature of the Nishimonai Bon Dance is that female dancers wear either a black hood covering the face except the eyes or a narrow straw hat that hides their faces almost entirely.<\/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: Nishimonai, Ugo Town Site(s) of performance: Nishimonai-Honch\u014d Street Date(s): August 16\u201318 Designation: State-Designated Important Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Bon Dance According to the oldest records available of dancing at Nishimonai, sometime during the Sh\u014d\u014d period (1288\u20131292), when the priest Genshin established Za\u014d Gogen Temple (present-day Mitake Shrine), the dance was performed in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/626-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nishimonai 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-24832","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\/24832","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=24832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}