著者

坂元 一光 Anaytulla Guljennet

出版者

九州大学大学院人間環境学研究院教育学部門

雑誌

大学院教育学研究紀要 (ISSN:13451677)

巻号頁・発行日

no.13, pp.61-75, 2010

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The article reports on the situation where the traditional girls' festival in Yanagawa has been reconstructed as a "tourism girls' festival" by the administrative tourism promotion policies and consequently is contributing to the transmission of the women's traditional handcrafts art and organizing their 'community of practice' by J.Lave and E.Wenger sheds light on the processes of gradual participation that enable the participants to acquire knowledge and skill, together with their identity of being members of the community. In this paper we indent to introduce instances of Sagemon decoration of house holds during first Seasonal festival, Sagemon-making sessions and workshops at women's clubs, work centeres for the elder, as well as to describe in overall terms the actual circumstances of events and handcrafts practice of local women who support and activate the transmission process of traditional events and handcrafts art. In resent years, the administrative approach to invite tourists and create related industries through the use of regional folk culture and traditional events in tourism, as a part fo their regional promotion policies, has become a national phenomenon. One example of such an approach is the tourism business of Girls' Festival on March 3 - a traditional girls' first seasonal festival held throughout Kyushu with the advent of the spring tourism season. Yanagawa City of Fukuoka Prefecture (in the Kyushu district) also participates in this festival ; however, it has a unique feature of hanging numerous small, beautiful handicrafts called Sagemon made from silk crepe (small-sized handmade stuffed figures, depicting animals and plants) on both the sides of the traditional girls' festival dools. Sagemons, decorated along with the girls' festival dolls, are time-honored craft tradition carried on in the local community, handcraftedby mothers and grandmothers of girls who are of the age to celebrate their first seasonal festival, wishing them happiness and sound growth. Today, the family celebration of Yanagawa has opened up to a wider region and to tourists through the use of the Yanagawa girls' festival and the Sagemons displayed in that festival which have both been passed on as local life ritual. Moreover, this change has resulted in an increased interest and demand for the Sagemons made by the local women.