Hometown Stories
Season 1 • Episode 2: The Mountain God Piggyback • Watch with subtitles
Episode 2: The Mountain God Piggyback
February 13, 2011 • 50 min
This program describes a simple, rustic event called "The Mountain God Piggyback" that has been handed down since time immemorial in a snowy mountain village in Yamagata Prefecture. Carrying the local shrine's object of worship on their shoulders, children make house-to-house visits in the area, so that the local people can offer up their prayers to the deity.
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