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Designated as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Property<\/strong>
\nThe Hikiyama rituals of the Tsuchizaki-Shinmei shrine festival were listed as an Intangible Cultural Property by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on November 30, 2017 (December 1, 2017 in Japanese time). It was categorized in \u201cthe rituals of Yama, Hoko and Yatai\u201d with 32 other festivals from the 18 prefectures which were already designated as national intangible cultural properties of Japan.
\nIn addition to the Hikiyama rituals of Tsuchizaki-Shimmei Shrine, the \u201cYama rituals of Kakunodate festival\u201d from Semboku City and the \u201cYatai rituals of Hanawa festival\u201d from Kazuno city were also designated from Akita prefecture at the same time.
\nThe category of \u201cthe rituals of Yama, Hoko and Yatai\u201d includes the festivals of cities and towns throughout Japan in which huge sculptures called Yama, Hoko, and\/or Yatai travel around the area. The three sculptures, Yama, Hoko, and Yatai, are classified according to their objectives: Yama and Hoko are portable shrines where gods stay and travel during the festival, and Yatai is a decorated wheeled cart that celebrates the arrival of the gods.
\nYama and Hoko are succeeded in various forms. Some are succeeded as a combined form of Yama\/Hoko and Yatai, while others are completely independent of each other. There are also festivals that only use Yatai but not Yama or Hoko.
\nThe rituals of Yama, Hoko, and Yatai are practiced with wishes of happiness by removing or calming evil, vengeful spirits that cause the spread of epidemic diseases out of the town.<\/p>\n

Designations of Hikiyama rituals of the Tsuchizaki-Shinmei Shrine festival<\/strong>
\n1990 Selected as the first candidate for \u201cAkita Prefecture’s Intangible Folk-cultural Properties\u201d
\n1993 Designated as \u201cIntangible Folk-cultural Property\u201d of Akita City
\n1994 Designated as \u201cIntangible Folk-cultural Property\u201d of Akita Prefecture
\n1997 Designated as \u201cImportant Intangible Folk-cultural Property\u201d of Japan
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Akita City Folk Performing Arts Heritage Center<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Designated as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Property The Hikiyama rituals of the Tsuchizaki-Shinmei shrine festival were listed as an Intangible Cultural Property by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on November 30, 2017 (December 1, 2017 in Japanese time). It was categorized in \u201cthe rituals of Yama, Hoko and Yatai\u201d with 32 … Continue reading Hikiyama rituals of the Tsuchizaki-Shinmei shrine festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":414,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9gCtR-S7","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3355\/revisions\/4032"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}