【イベント】玉取祭／玉せせり【筥崎宮】2024　　　　　　　　　　　　　Tamatori Matsuri / Tamaserei [Hakozaki Shrine] 2024

日付/時間
Date(s) - 2024/01/03
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

カテゴリー

毎年、盛大かつ厳重に行われている神事「玉取祭（玉せせり）」

約600年前の室町時代に始まったとされる伝統行事。

 

京都の石清水・大分の宇佐とともに日本三大八幡宮の一社に数えられる筥崎宮で毎年、盛大かつ厳重に行われている神事「玉取祭」。別名「玉せせり」といい、全国に知られる九州三大祭の一つです。

 

起源は定かではありませんが、約600年前の室町時代に始まったとされています。

 

13時からの玉洗い式にて祓い清められた陰陽2つの木玉は、東側に約250m離れた場所にある末社玉取恵比須神社に運ばれます。ここで祭典の後、陽の玉は裸に締め込み姿の競り子達に手渡され祭典開始となります。

 

この玉に触れると悪事災難を逃れ幸運を授かるといわれており、締め込み姿の男衆が勢い水を浴びながら、陽の玉をめぐって激しい争奪戦を繰り広げ、本宮に向かって競り進みます。

 

やがて楼門に待つ神職の手に渡され、陰陽2つの玉が再び揃って神前に納まり、めでたく神事は執り納めとなります。

 

陸側と浜側に分かれた玉の争奪戦は、一年の吉凶を占う意味合いもあり陸側が玉をあげれば豊作、浜側があげれば豊漁といわれています。

 

＜開催日時＞

2024年1月3日（水曜日）13時～14時30分くらい

絵馬殿前にて玉洗式開始。
終了後、東側に約250m離れた末社玉取恵比須神社へ移動、祭典終了後に玉せせりが開始。
玉は本宮まで競られ本殿に納まり終了。

 

＜場　　所＞

玉取恵比須神社～筥崎宮境内

 

詳しくはこちら→https://www.hakozakigu.or.jp/omatsuri/tamatorisai/

 

＊WeBase 博多から地下鉄で20分

 

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Tamatori Matsuri (Tamaseri), a grand and rigorous Shinto ritual held every year.

 

This traditional event is said to have started in the Muromachi period (1333-1573), about 600 years ago.

 

The “Tamadori Matsuri” is a grand and strict ritual held every year at Hakozaki Shrine, one of the three largest Hachimangu shrines in Japan, along with Ishimizu Shrine in Kyoto and Usa Shrine in Oita Prefecture. Also known as “Tamaseri”, it is one of the three major festivals in Kyushu known throughout Japan.

 

The origin of the festival is not known, but it is believed to have started about 600 years ago during the Muromachi period (1336-1573).

 

The two wooden balls, one yin and one yang, are purified in a ball-washing ceremony starting at 1:00 p.m., and then carried to the Tamatori Ebisu Shrine, a branch shrine located about 250 m to the east. After the ceremony here, the yang ball is handed over to the bidders, who are dressed naked and wearing a kimono, and the ceremony begins.

 

It is said that touching the ball will bring good luck and help one escape from bad luck and misfortune, so the men in shimekomi (a ceremonial kimono with a tight fitting) compete for the ball as they are drenched with water.

 

The yin and yang balls are eventually handed over to the priests waiting at the tower gate, and the two balls are placed together again in front of the shrine.

 

The battle for the balls, which are divided between the land side and the beach side, is meant to divine the good fortune of the year, and it is said that if the ball is given to the land side, there will be a good harvest, and if the ball is given to the beach side, there will be a good catch of fish.

 

<Date and time>

Wednesday, January 3, 2024, 13:00 – 14:30

The Tamarai Ceremony will begin in front of the Ema-den (shrine building).
After the ceremony is over, the participants move to the Tamatori Ebisu Shrine, located 250 meters to the east of the shrine.
After the ceremony is over, the tama-sereri begins. The balls are auctioned to the main shrine and delivered to the main hall, where the ceremony ends.

 

＜Location>

Tamatori Ebisu Shrine – Hakozakigu Shrine grounds

 

For more information, please visit https://www.hakozakigu.or.jp/omatsuri/tamatorisai/

 

＊20 min. by subway from WeBase HAKATA.