Paper short abstract

I compare a traditional coming-of-age Eboshi-Gi rite of the young man in Shizuhara, a village in Japan's Kyoto province from an investigation of the chronological order of 30 years. And I would like to discuss the inheritance fruits of scientific research achievement in ethnographic film.

Paper long abstract

In 1979, Yasuhiro Omori recorded the traditional coming-of-age Eboshi-Gi rites in Shizuhara, a village in Japan's Kyoto province and the local youth association. This ceremony that had been succeeded from the Muromachi era (16th century) is established by preparations with young man and youth association. In 2011, Takami Suzuki recorded and compared the same ceremony Eboshi-Gi between 30 years.

In this film, the difficulty of maintaining social organization and traditional ceremony becomes clear. And details in the ceremony clarify the meaning of a growth of the mind and body for modern Japan.

This film inherits the scientific knowledge in ethnographic film through 30years and presents possibility of ethnographic film through filmmaking with anthropologists as archives of scientific research achievement.