{"id":2590,"date":"2015-01-20T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:14:12","slug":"community-development-course-trainee-report-dondoyaki-at-kodo-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-cultural-foundation\/20150120_2590.html","title":{"rendered":"Community Development Course Trainee Report: “Dondoyaki<\/span> at Kodo Village”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jan. 15 Dondoyaki<\/span>\u00a0(New Year Bonfire) at Kodo Village<\/h2>\n

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There was\u00a0a\u00a0Dondoyaki*<\/span>\u00a0event at Kodo Village on January 15.
\nBefore dark it was raining, but when Kenta Nakagome cheerfully shouted out “Seh-no!,<\/span>” the rain stopped and we all started singing a\u00a0Dondo-yaki\u00a0<\/span>song as the bonfire was set alight.<\/p>\n

I had never heard this song before.<\/p>\n

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Dondoyaki<\/span> is a traditional Japanese event. The\u00a0Kodo members\u00a0burn their\u00a0broken bachi<\/span> (drumsticks), worn-out\u00a0fans and bamboo dance props… so the essence of performing arts infuses the flames, taking that lifeforce up into the night sky in the smoke.<\/p>\n

After the event, we, the Community Development Course trainees, were on duty watching\u00a0the fire go out. As I watched the ashes in the dark, and weakened, gentle flames, I could hear many sounds as it crackled and burned.<\/p>\n

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By Misaki Nakamura, 2014-2015 Community Development Course trainee<\/p>\n

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*Translator’s Note: Dondoyaki<\/span> Explanation from Kodo eNews Issue 3<\/a>
\nEvery year on January 15th, Kodo Village holds its own Dondoyaki<\/span>, a traditional\u00a0Japanese fire ceremony to farewell the New Year gods back to the heavens. New\u00a0Year decorations and good luck charms and amulets from the past year are burned in the\u00a0fire, a tepee-like structure made of bamboo, thatching hay, and straw.\u00a0At Kodo, players burn the drumsticks they can no longer use in this fire.\u00a0It is said that the deity of the New Year goes back home with the smoke of\u00a0Dondoyaki,<\/span>, so we like to send the heart and soul forged in the drumsticks along\u00a0with it. Mochi<\/span> (pounded rice cakes) from the week before is also toasted over the fire and eaten to\u00a0bring good health in the year ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 15 Dondoyaki\u00a0(New Year Bonfire) at Kodo Village There was\u00a0a\u00a0Dondoyaki*\u00a0event at Kodo Village on January 15. Before dark it was raining, but when Kenta Nakagome cheerfully shouted out “Seh-no!,” the rain stopped and we all started singing a\u00a0Dondo-yaki\u00a0song as the bonfire was set alight. I had never heard this song before. Dondoyaki is a traditional Japanese event. The\u00a0Kodo members\u00a0burn their\u00a0broken bachi (drumsticks), worn-out\u00a0fans and bamboo dance props… so the essence of performing arts infuses the flames, taking that lifeforce up into the night sky in the smoke. After the event, we, the Community Development Course trainees, were on duty watching\u00a0the fire go out. As I watched the ashes in the … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[106,95,23,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}