岸和田だんじり祭り
１４日の日曜日、生まれて初めて、「岸和田のだんじり祭り」を見物。勇壮というか何というか？、とにかくすごい。岸和田市全てが祭りである。
岸和田在住の友人が、カンカン場の桟敷席を興業しており、一等席を小生に用意してくれた。せっかくのご厚意と、妻と一緒に出掛けたが、普段１０分もあれば着くところを一時間かかり、帰路も岸和田駅まで一時間。とにかく祭り優先、だんじり優先で、進もうに進めない。 だが、気性の荒さ、短気で知られる泉州人もこの日だけは誰一人声を荒げる人はいない。
とにかく、街をあげての祭り、市をあげての祭り、と云うのがいやという程よくわかった。
On Sunday, the 14th, I went to see the Kishiwada Danjiri Festival for the first time in my life. I don’t know… I mean, what do you call it? Anyway, awesome. Everything in Kishiwada is a festival.
A friend of mine who lives in Kishiwada was running a pier seat in Kan Kanba, and he offered me a first-class seat. My wife and I went out with her, but it took us an hour to get there in 10 minutes and an hour to get back to Kishiwada station. Anyway, we can’t move forward with the festival and danjiri first. However, the Senshu people, known for their rough temper and short temper, did not raise their voices on this day.
In any case, I could not help but notice that it was a city-wide festival and a city-wide festival.
