能代七夕 天空の不夜城 協議会 - Noshiro

2019⋅ 8⋅ 4 Big, beautiful, overwhelmed (^. ^) There was a headquarters in front of the AEON Noshiro store Finally, it ’s good to have time to enter the road and interact with the festival people I played drums, shoot, and everyone was excited (^ o ^)

Noshiro has a traditional summer Tanabata event that has been around for a long time. Children put rectangular lanterns called drums, flutes, and Dengaku on their heads, and draw around a castle-shaped lantern with a huge sardine, and parade through the town. According to the literature, the shape of the lantern was made in the Tenpo era (1830-1844), and a castle type that imitated Nagoya Castle was made. m) It is said that a lantern with a width of three squares (5.4 m) was laid out until dawn. The figure of the huge lantern at that time is left in the silver plate photograph taken in the Meiji era. However, due to the spread of electricity, electric wires are stretched all over the city, and the height is limited to about 7 to 8 m, and it has become a powerful mechanism that the shachi falls when passing through the current electric wire. It was. Then, in 2012, with the completion of the undergrounding of the electric wire of Noshiro City Route 101, the environment for operating the lanterns of the size of Gojo 8 shaku was prepared, and the large lanterns will be revived. An attempt was made. Now that the vitality of Noshiro has declined, we would like to revive the large lanterns and rejuvenate our town, Noshiro. I want to regain pride in Noshiro. With that in mind, we have revived the large Tanabata festival beyond the time of the first century. In 2013, we were able to operate the first Noshiro Tanabata "Nightless Castle in the Sky". A large lantern of five lengths and eight shaku (17.6m) has risen in the town of Noshiro for the first time in a century. The following year, in 2014, we added the 24.1m "Aiki Chikasue", which is the tallest castle-shaped lantern in Japan, and paraded around the town of Noshiro.

It seems that the festival has disappeared once about 80 years ago. In 2012, the underground cable of Noshiro City No. 101 was completed. In 2013, Noshiro Tanabata “Night Castle in the Sky”, Gojo Hachisaku (17.6m) ) Large lanterns. In 2014, the castle-type lantern has become the biggest festival with the addition of 24.1m of Ai Chikasue, which is the tallest in Japan. “Night castle in the night sky, Tanabata”, this festival is a premonition that it will be quite popular in the future. It may not be as easy to see as it is now, so it may be better to plan early and go to see it.