著者

佐々木 重洋 SASAKI Shigehiro

出版者

名古屋大学文学部

雑誌

名古屋大学文学部研究論集. 哲学 (ISSN:04694716)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, pp.75-95, 2006-03-31

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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.