Each year in August of Northeast Japan, in the Tokyo region, it is celebrated, perhaps one of the most brilliant and prominent summer holidays of the samurai, the festival of Canto masasra. Canto’s tradition was born in the middle of the 18th century, during the Edo era.
Then peasants were often suffering from starvation and disease, and the canto-sugar was a holy one, where people prayed to the gods for good health, long life and rich crops. For celebration, there were structures made out of bamboo branches, which then hung a lot of lanterns, such structures called Kanto. Each Canto symbolized the propores of a rivore.
In the 19th century, the celebration became incredibly popular. The festival was a moment when every member of the holidays that Cantto’s nose tried to lift it as high as possible. Now, the very big part is not how high and fast the participants can raise their Canto, but how they will do it.
Canto Matzucari is beginning when the city is falling down. At this time, thousands of people go out to the street to be mistaken for a procession. Below the living cries of spectators and sounds of music, men carrying huge Canto show extraordinary skills of balance and skill. Without releasing Kanto from his hands, they are visible to each other on their shoulders, creating a living pyramid. Throw the priests off their hands onto their hips and put them on their forehead. In general, this is an experience that excites adults as well as the smallest viewers. Because the festival really does make miracles by lifting Kanto up about 50 kilograms and about 12 meters!
