Location Nonoichi Furusato History Museum / Nonoichi Digital Archives
Oshino Mushi-okuri
- Display status
- On display
- Period
- Until modern times
- Form/Type
- Folk material
- Location
- Oshino (Nonoichi City, Ishikawa Pref.)
The Oshino Mushi-okuri Festival takes place in mid-July in Oshino, organized by the Oshino Neighborhood Association's Youth Division. “Mushi-okuri” means to drive away crop-eating insects with torches. Participants play various drums, such as the dochu-drum, okuri-drum, and tomari-drum, while carrying torches around the rice fields. The festival culminates in passing under a fire rope arch marked with “虫送り” (mushi-okuri) and gathering in a square to encircle a bonfire while beating the drums vigorously.
A distinctive feature of the Oshino Bug Sending Festival is the use of two types of drumsticks, known as “Obai” and “Kobai”. The festival also includes a collaborative performance called “ii” with neighboring districts.
The Oshino Mushi-okuri Festival is designated as an important traditional event in rice-growing regions and is valuable for preserving the entertainment elements of drum performances.
You can watch videos of the festival at the Nonoichi Digital Museum: http://digitalmuseum.city.nonoichi.lg.jp/modules/fn2/index.php?content_id=1.
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The Nonoichi City Furusato History Museum opened in April 1992 as a facility that organizes, stores, researches and exhibits cultural properties. It is adjacent to the Okyozuka Site, a National Historic Site, and approximately 800 pieces of Jomon Period earthenware, earthen figurines and stone artifacts excavated from the Okyozuka Site are on display (all are designated Important Cultural Properties). In addition, artifacts from the Yayoi Period to early modern times found during excavations in Nonoichi City are on display. Nonoichi Digital Archives is a digital museum opened in 2013 that introduces Nationally and City-Designated Cultural Properties located in Nonoichi.
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