Monday 11 June 2007

3. Yotsuya katsugi (How to carry Mikoshi in Yotsuya)


Yotsuya Katsugi is the way of carrying the Mikoshi. I guess there are a lot of Matsuri in Japan, so we can imagine how to carry Mikoshi, but we have special way of carrying mikoshi and when you see it you can tell the differences between Yotsuya Katsugi and others. I think the big difference is we don’t shake Mikoshi so hard and we don’t get big steps with Mikoshi. The way of carrying Mikoshi well is needed all the people carry it in same rhythm (timing). If you are a little bit taller than others you might need to square your height to others.