【音量注意】「日本一やかましい祭」石取祭(三重・桑名市)2023 太鼓と鉦(かね)の轟音！祭車40台のリーダー福江町の「渡祭(とさい)」ノーカット Noisiest Festival in Japan

The Ishidori Festival was held for two days on the first Saturday and Sunday in August 2023. The Ishidori Matsuri has been held in Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture, for about 400 years, and has been selected as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage and a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Asset. The original purpose of the festival was to collect clean stones from the Machiya River that runs through the southern part of the city and dedicate them to the Kasuga Shrine (Kuwana Sung Shrine) for its maintenance, but the festival music that enlivened the procession of the stones greatly developed and took its present form. The roar of the drums and gongs continues almost continuously from midnight on Saturday to midnight on Sunday. The biggest spectacle of the festival was the "tosai," or procession. At the front of Kasuga Shrine, the festival floats offer up the "sound" with all their might for eight minutes each in a turn determined by lot drawing. This year, the town of Fukue drew the first lots for the Hanaguruma, or flower cart, and was the first to perform the festival, representing 40 towns. It was a spectacular event. The ringing in my ears that did not cease even after a while told the story of how amazing the festival was. Please note that some expressions may be difficult to understand due to mechanical translation.