祭概要

幻想的な雪のやしろ「かまくら」で、子どもたちが甘酒・お餅でおもてなし！
Children offer you amazake and rice cakes in a fairytale-like shrine made of snow.

秋田県でも降雪量の多い横手市に約450年間伝わる小正月行事。2月15日・16日の夕刻には、雪の山をくり抜いて作る「かまくら」が灯りをともして立ち並びます。「入ってたんせ」と子どもたちに招かれて中に入ると、雪の中なのにほっこり温か。正面に祀られた水神様にお賽銭をあげたら、甘酒やお餅を食べながら会話を楽しみます。日中には「ミニかまくら作り」も体験できる他、頭飾りの豪華さを競う「ぼんでん」、市内各所に登場する「雪像」も見物です。
2月17日の「旭岡山神社梵天奉納祭」では、高さ約5mのぼんでんを男衆が勇ましく担ぎ、激しい押し合いを見せます。


A roughly 450-year-old lunar New Year event of Yokote City, which has some of the largest amounts of snowfall in Akita Prefecture. Mounds of snow that are hollowed out and turned into igloos will be lined next to each other and lit up on the evenings of February 15 and 16. Feel nice and warm as you enter a snow hut that a child beckons you into. After offering money to the god of water enshrined at the front, you can enjoy a conversation while drinking amazake and eating rice cakes. During the day, you can make a mini igloo and watch a competition where the participants try to outdo each other with bonten head ornaments as well as statues made of snow all over the city.
Men valiantly carry roughly five-meter-tall bonten head ornaments and jostle each other during the Asahiokayama Shrine Bonten Offering Festival on February 17.

祭基本情報