抄録
In this paper I will focus on the urban festival, Kokura Gion Daiko, in the kokurakita-ku Kitakuysyu-city Fukuoka-prefecture and consider the transient fashions or Fuzoku created by young people and their awareness on the festival. This festival is organized by Yasaka shrine, Chonai, Hozonshinkokai (the society for the preservation and promotion of Kokura Gion Daiko), enterprises and volunteer groups. Volunteer groups in particular have had an increasing role and responsibility in this festival. Members of volunteer groups from connections beyond those based on territory, kinship or a combination of territory and kinship. Why are volunteer groups accepted by the community as a whole, despite their recent appearance? Those groups welcome those young people who, out of their self consciousness and/or defiance toward adults, may have once left their neighborhood Chonai groups, but who later return to take part in the festival. Volunteer groups make it possible for diverse groups of people including residents of other areas to partipate in the festival.
