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The sons of Eboshi / produced by National Museum of Ethnology ; directed by Yasuhiro Omori.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Shinto--Customs and practices.
- Shinto.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video (81 min.))
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, c2007.
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with English narration.
- Summary:
- Four young men take part in traditional coming-of-age Eboshi-Gi rites in Shizuhara, a village in Japan's Kyoto province. The Shinto ceremony of Samurai orgin marks the young men's passage into adulthood and initiates them into the local youth association.Families prepare for the Eboshi-Gi with extravagent banqueting and the young men practice the recitation of verses and gather symbolic decorations. The film documents the deep respect for tradition still held in this area of modern Japan.
- Notes:
- Filmed in April-June 1979 and originally released in 1986.
- OCLC:
- 649690871
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