Kawanakajima (mock cavalry battle)

One of the athletic meet competitions to be carried out around Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka district with Kawanakajima (かわなかじま). It is a mock cavalry battle to say, but, unlike a general mock cavalry battle to scramble for a hat and the headband of the opponent when a boy child performs it, I hurl myself at the mounting a horse of the enemy and break mounting a horse, and victory or defeat is fixed commonly by letting a jockey fall from the horse. On the other hand, I take off a hat when a girl child performs it [¹].

Origin

I make "a fight of Kawanakajima" by Shingen Takeda and Kenshin Uesugi of the age of civil strife a model, but, for the athletic meet of the Shinetsu district with real "Kawanakajima", the competition of Kawanakajima does not exist. The details are unclear about the question why is transmitted only in the Kitakyushu-shi whole area. There is the story to come from that blood relationship of Ogasawara of the Ogura feudal lord is a worth country, but does not leave the level of the guess [²]. In addition, a name called Kawanakajima comes up in a document in Fukuoka in the 1900s [¹]. With the opinion that often likened a mock cavalry battle to a competition between two teams battle nationwide in those days, but it was from the things that estrade ノ 浦 which fell Heike in Kitakyushu-shi was near, and contemplation was too strong, and were fair again at the point where was not accompanied by an end as for fighting of Kawanakajima in Kawanakajima [¹].

Competition style

A stylized battle method is in Kawanakajima. The mounting a horse is one set of four people. The cavalry leaves the entrance gate while singing the following recitation of a Chinese poem with the child with the flag in the lead. As for the melody, a war song ("680 the way villages" but as for the melody the thing of "the triumphant return") of the Meiji era is misappropriated. The children of the lower grades that could not participate in Kawanakajima were gathered in the music room in Kitakyusyu at the time of 1974 City Wakamatsu Elementary School, and the child of the upper grades told this melody by oral tradition.

 (white) Come over; this time Shingen (rouge) Come over; this time Kenshin (white) When beat, and do not carry it out; from paths of Kai (rouge) When beat, and do not carry it out; than Echigo (white) Come over to Shinano, and do it; of Kenshin (rouge) Come over to Shinano, and do it; of Shingen (white) A soldier to lead is 8,000 horse men (rouge) The soldier to lead is 二万余騎 (white) Unit five is fair (rouge) Come over to Kawanakajima, and do it; time (white) End in early evening on an autumn day (rouge) I hear only a sound of the water high no (both militaries) I hear only a sound of the water high no 

Some lyrics are different as follows in the elementary school in Fukuoka-shi.

 (white) Come over; this time Shingen (rouge) Come over; this time Kenshin (white) When beat, and do not carry it out; from paths of Kai (rouge) When beat, and do not carry it out; than Echigo (white) Come over to Shinano, and do it; of Kenshin (rouge) Come over to Shinano, and do it; of Shingen (white) A soldier to lead is 8,000 horse men (rouge) The soldier to lead is 二万余騎 (white) A flag of the taking the field is dignified (rouge) It is solemn without the sound of the whip (white) When I reach it near Saigawa (rouge) It is 映 ゆる on figure day of Umaue (both militaries) End in early evening on an autumn day (both militaries) I do it with Mii of the sound of the water high 

And, with the mounting a horse of the commander-in-chief in the lead, group of innocence (the Uesugi forces) each does it under the red group (the Takeda forces), the flag of "the god of treasure" under the flag of "the Shingen Takeda's flag slogan" and I stand in line and face each other [²]. The child who is not present at the actual fighting sings a unique chanty.

The first round becomes the simultaneous war that the mounting a horse that faced each other fights. Mounting a horse clashes, and the scuffle between jockeys is carried out, and the one that fell down becomes the defeat. But mounted balance really collapses, and victory or defeat is judged when I inclined to one. In addition, at the side, a teacher is assigned to mounting a horse and softens the shock of the fall from a horse [²]. I count the mounted number that "stop!", and remained by の signal, and the that there is little number of the people of fall from a horse becomes the victory. Furthermore, the second round becomes the tie by the one-on-one mounting a horse, and victory or defeat of Takeda, Uesugi determines it by the general results with one or two rounds.

Footnote

1. ^ ^{a b c} Asahi Shimbun November 20, 2007 date morning edition, Nagano Tohoku sincerity side, 27
2. I publish a making of Kitakyushu-shi turnout social gathering after ^ ^{a b c} Michiko Otani "Nakanoshima "cloud" of the town のうた 4 river" in 4, 40-41 pages, 2007

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