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Shorts RAI Film Festival 2021. Okinami /

This film features a Japanese seaside ritual performed in honour of a marine deity, who is considered to hold the power to determine a safe and successful year of local fishing. This two-day event involves the carrying of large lantern floats by hundreds of people. Due to the ageing Okinami populati...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tamura, Can (Director)
Format: Video
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese.
Published: London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2019.
Series:Shorts RAI Film Festival 2021
Subjects:
Fasts and feasts > Japan.
Folklore > Japan.
Fishing > Japan.
Japan > Social life and customs.
Folklore > Japon.
Pêche sportive > Japon.
Japon > Mœurs et coutumes.
Fasts and feasts
Fishing
Folklore
Manners and customs
Japan
documentary film.
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Short films
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Short films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Courts métrages.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:This film features a Japanese seaside ritual performed in honour of a marine deity, who is considered to hold the power to determine a safe and successful year of local fishing. This two-day event involves the carrying of large lantern floats by hundreds of people. Due to the ageing Okinami population, the settlement depends on outside volunteers to support the tradition. The film explores how social memory in Okinami is maintained and how a community is redefined through the combined and strenuous efforts - locals and outsiders - in ritual performance.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed June 22, 2023).
Physical Description:1 online resource (25 minutes)
Playing Time:00:24:02