西条提灯の製作におけるコツ

抄録

At the Iyo-saijo, the autumn festival which used total 150 "Mikoshi", "Danjiri" and "Taikodai" from the Edo period has been held for 4 days. In particular, in night operations in "Mikoshi" and "Danjiri", candles are lit in each 100 lanterns each. After that, they walk around, sometimes run and enter the river. Therefore, lanterns are shaken intensely and broken. As a result, we have to manufacture several types of lanterns in short time in 100 units. In addition to traditional techniques in making lanterns, they have improved tools for improve productivity. However, the manufacturing method is only the oral responses. Therefore, it changed while responding to the usage environment etc.

We focused on the lantern manufacturing of Iyo-saijo which is the original technique. This time, we will report on the tricks which seems to have evolved especially in the manufacture of the lantern for "Mikoshi".