onda


"onda" means "rice paddy".
"matsuri" means "festival".

From time immemorial, Japanese had lived on rice.
Rice is most important food for Japanese.

And at the rice-planting season,
people had festival with to wish crop harvest.

People thought crop same to pregnancy.

The caracters of "Ondamatsuri" are "okina", "tengu" and "okame".
"okina" means old wise man.
"tengu" is monster, but on the festival, it means young man.
"okame" is plump and healthy young woman.

Sorry, this festival contain sexual desccription.
But Japanese have thought sexual intercourse as holy.

Tengu and okame play wedding, and the bridal night on the stage.
The audience laugh uproariously.

It is thought that if the laughter is big,
it will have a good harvest of rice.

And "okina" hit audience's hip for edorcism.
He kick evil out of audience's body.



pictures of festival



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