House Warming Rites "Chisei-Nomi" in Nibutani
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content: HSFA 1993.6.2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Okada, Kazuo
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content: Kazuo Okada videos
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content: 1 Videocassette (19 minutes, black-and-white color sound, 1/2 inch)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Videocassettes
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content: Edited film created from contemporary and historical footage by EC Japan Archives, the Shimonaka Memorial Foundation, and Tokyo Cinema, Inc. Film contains footage shot in 1934 by anthropologist N.G. Munro in the village of Nibutani, Hokkaido, Japan. Contemporary footage shows memorial to Dr. Munro, Saru River, countryside with mountains and fields, and thatched homes in Nibutani. 1934 footage depicts house warming rites including ikema (blowing out evil spirits), saluting and shaving of inau (wooden fetishes), praying in front of a nusa (altar), and dancing. The participants wear long robes with headbands, long wigs, and exaggerated "lip painting." Also included are: chise-chuccha (shooting magwort arrows into rooftops to drive out evil spirits), horippa (circular dance with swords), anna-hore (a linear dance), hararaki (swift dance performed by mostly women), chappy-yaku (women's dance around scaffold type altar), tapkara (men's and women's dance), and the preparation of tonto (sake). Film contains Japanese and English intertitles.