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"SANBASO MAWASHI" One of the typical New Year celebration Performances in Shikoku is a puppet show called Sanbasoumawashi. It is said that it started about 300 years ago. A puppeteer and a tuzumi (hand drum) player carrying four puppets of Sanbaso(Senzai,Okina,Snbaso) and Ebisu in two wooden boxes(wicker trunks were used in montinregions) visit houses during the New Year holidays and perform a puppet show at the gate. After hanging strips of white paper to Kojin(god), the puppeteer predicts and celebrates good harvests and a year without disease or disaster using the four puppets(dekos). In the past, the performers of Sanbasomawashi visited houses on predetermined dates; consequently, Sanbasomawashi became a well-established New Year's ritual and custom and was practiced for a long period of time. However, most of the performers went out of business. By the late 1960's, the tradition disappeard from cities and towns and could be found only in some farm villages in intermediate and mountainous area. Performing on the roadside: “Hako Mawashi” |
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