The Japanese meaning that is written on the left lower panel:
It is the festival of the Yudate-Kagura(湯立神楽) that it is thought that the Toyama's Shimotsuki Festival(遠山の霜月祭り) came as manor courtesy of Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine in the Kamakura era. In November of the lunar calendar(=霜月)solar power declines and to revive again, We give sacred bath to the gods and pray for reproduction of the life of all things.
In 9 shrines in the Minamishinano Village, We repeat Yudate and a dance from an evening through midnight while singing a hymn song in Kagura, and the gods of the village appear as OMOTE(面)afterwards . This bronze statue is "Mizu-no-Ou(水の王)", and all "Shizume-Sama(しずめ様)" of them is invited an another name to.He splashes it with boiling hot water barehanded and cleanses the life of people.
Important Intangible Folk-Cultural Property 1979
※Yudate(湯立て)is a meaning of magical rite with boiling water.
※OMOTE(面)is the mask which imitated God or a farmer.
※Mizu-no-Ou(水の王)is a meaning of the King of the Water.
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