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  • Date: Sun, April 12
  • Time: 10:00-16:00(Approx.)
  • Location: Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine and surrounding areas

🥷Kamakura is a city where history doesn't just sit in a museum—it walks (and dances) down the street. If you're coming to be there on April 12th, you've picked the perfect time to witness the Kamakura Matsuri, the celebration of the city's samurai soul⚔
【Schedule】
10:00 AM – Watch the Festive Parade (Gyoretsu Junko) 🎭行列巡行
Enjoy the grand parade featuring locals dressed in authentic samurai armor and traditional costumes marching through the streets of Kamakura.
around 12:00 PM – Lunch & Strolling through Komachi-dori 🍱ランチず🍡小町通り散策
1:30 PM – Head to the Tsurugaoka Shrine ⛩鶎岡八幡宮
It's best to arrive early to secure a good viewing spot!
2:30 PM – Witness the "Shizuka no Mai" (Dance of Lady Shizuka)👘静の舞を鑑賞
Watch the highlight of the festival at the shrine’s Maiden (outdoor stage). This elegant, traditional dance tells the story of Lady Shizuka’s legendary love and bravery.👘The story is below.

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◆Meeting Time10:00am
◆Meeting placeJR Kamakura station East Exit (JR鎌倉駅東口)
※ Exit the East Exit ticket gate and it's in front of the CIAL building on your right. Inside there's a bakery, convenience store, etc.
◆ Participation fee¥1,500(cash or paypay)
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📩To participants
Please access this LINE in the link below. 👥It gets crowded, so this is for when you get separate the group👀
LINE name鎌倉た぀り2026
https://line.me/ti/g/ka8SMhQYqv

👘Shizuka no Mai
The story of Shizuka Gozen (Lady Shizuka) is one of Japan's famous historical tragedies—a tale of love, defiance, and a "mic-drop" moment that happened over 800 years ago right where the dance is performed today.
Here is the story behind the Shizuka no Mai:
1. The Star-Crossed Lovers
Shizuka was a Shirabyoshi, a highly skilled court dancer known for her beauty and talent. She was the lover of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a brilliant military commander and a hero of the Genpei War.
However, Yoshitsune had a falling out with his powerful older brother, Minamoto no Yoritomo (the first Shogun of the Kamakura Period). Yoritomo declared his brother a rebel, forcing Yoshitsune to flee for his life.
2. The Capture
While trying to escape through the snowy mountains of Yoshino, Shizuka was captured by Yoritomo’s soldiers. She was pregnant with Yoshitsune’s child and was brought to Kamakura as a prisoner to be interrogated about her lover's whereabouts.
3. The Performance of Defiance
In April 1186, Yoritomo and his wife, Hojo Masako, ordered Shizuka to perform a dance at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine. They wanted her to dance in celebration of Yoritomo's new government.
Instead of praising the Shogun, Shizuka used the performance to express her undying love for the "rebel" Yoshitsune. She sang:
♪Tracing my steps back through the winding trails of Mount Yoshino, I long for the man who left his footprints in the white snow♪
4. The Aftermath
Yoritomo was furious. In those days, openly supporting an enemy of the Shogun was essentially a death sentence. However, Yoritomo’s wife, Masako, was so moved by Shizuka’s courage and devotion that she persuaded her husband to spare Shizuka's life.
Sadly, the story remains a tragedy: Yoritomo ordered that if her baby was a boy, he must be killed to prevent any future revenge. The baby was indeed a boy, and the child was taken from her. Shizuka eventually became a Buddhist nun and passed away at the young age of 20.
🎭 Why it matters today
When you watch the dance on April 12th, you aren't just watching "pretty movements." You are watching a recreation of that act of bravery.
* The Stage: It is performed on the Maiden (the same spot where the original dance is said to have happened).
* The Costume: The dancer wears the traditional Shirabyoshi outfit—a tall red hat (tate-eboshi) and a white robe, symbolizing the elegance and strength of Lady Shizuka.
⇧Nihongo
鎌倉は、歎史がただ博物通に閉じ蟌められおいる街ではありたせん。歎史がそのたた通りを歩き、舞い螊る街です。もし4月12日に鎌倉を蚪れるなら、この街の「歊士の魂」を祝う祭兞、「鎌倉た぀り」が芋れる絶奜の機䌚です。
たた、その前のパレヌドは、本物の䟍の鎧や䌝統的な着物に身を包んだ地元の人々が街を緎り歩きたす。写真奜きにはたたらない光景です。
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静埡前しずかごぜんの物語は、日本で有名な歎史的悲劇の䞀぀です。それは、今から800幎以䞊前、たさにこの舞が披露される堎所で起きた、愛ず抵抗、そしお「信念を貫いた瞬間」の物語です。
1. 悲劇の恋人たち
静は、圓時「癜拍子しらびょうし」ず呌ばれた、優れた才胜ず矎貌を兌ね備えた舞螊家でした。圌女は、源平合戊の英雄である源矩経の最愛のパヌトナヌでした。
しかし、矩経は兄である源頌朝鎌倉幕府の初代将軍ず察立しおしたいたす。頌朝は匟を反逆者ず芋なし、矩経は逃亡を䜙儀なくされたした。
2. 捕瞛
雪深い吉野山で矩経ず別れた埌、静は頌朝の远っ手に捕らえられおしたいたす。圓時、圌女は矩経の子を身ごもっおいたした。圌女は矩経の行方を問いただされるため、捕虜ずしお鎌倉ぞず連行されたした。
3. 抵抗の舞
1186幎4月、頌朝ずその劻・北条政子は、鶎岡八幡宮で静に舞を披露するよう呜じたした。頌朝は、圌女に自分の暩力ず新しい幕府の繁栄を祝っお舞うこずを期埅したのです。
しかし、静は頌朝を讃えるどころか、舞を通じお「反逆者」である矩経ぞの断ち切れぬ愛を堂々ず歌い䞊げたした。
♪吉野山 峰の癜雪 ふみわけお 入りにし人の 跡ぞ恋しき♪
(吉野山の峰の癜雪を螏み分けお、姿を消しおしたったあの人の足跡が恋しくおなりたせん
4. その埌の悲劇
この挑発的な振る舞いに、頌朝は激怒したした。圓時、将軍の敵を公然ず慕うこずは死に倀する行為だったからです。しかし、劻の政子が静の勇気ず献身的な愛に深く感動し、「私が圌女の立堎でも同じこずをしたでしょう」ず倫を説埗しお、静の呜を救いたした。
それでも、物語は悲劇的な結末を迎えたす。頌朝は「生たれた子が男子であれば、将来の埩讐を恐れお殺せ」ず呜じたした。生たれた赀ん坊は男の子だったため、静から匕き離され、由比ヶ浜の海に沈められおしたいたした。静はその埌、出家しお尌ずなり、わずか20歳でこの䞖を去ったず䌝えられおいたす。
🎭 珟代においおこの舞が意味するこず
4月12日に披露される舞は、単なる「矎しい䌝統芞胜」ではありたせん。それは、暩力に屈しなかった静埡前の勇気ある行動の再珟なのです。
* 舞台 圓時、実際にこの事件が起きたずされる「舞殿」で行われたす。
* 装束 螊り手は、赀い立烏垜子たおえがしに癜い着物ずいう、圓時の癜拍子の䌝統的なスタむルを再珟しおいたす。
静埡前の凛ずした匷さを知るず、お祭りの景色も少し違っお芋えおくるかもしれたせんね。
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☔Notice
If there is strong rain,it will be canceled. Then I will tell you the day before on the Messages.

Disclaimer and Important Notes 
I am not professional guide and not trained not for rescuing.Please check your own condition and be responsible for your own safety when deciding to participate in any events.And might cause injury if not carefully perform.I am not responsible any incidents and injury or if you cause injury to third parties during the activities.Please be responsible for your safety during the activities so that you won't cause troubles to other tour and other fellow participants.

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