【4K動画】2025年7月13日、祇園祭の長刀鉾（京都市下京区）の稚児が、京都市東山区の八坂神社を参拝する「社参の儀」のために長刀鉾町会所を出発。朝から厳しい日差しが照り付ける中、四条通を八坂神社に向かって東に進んだ。
社参の儀は「お位（くらい）もらい」ともいわれ、10万石の大名の格式に相当する「正五位少将」を得たとみなされる。神事を終え「神の使い」となった稚児は地面に足を付けないよう、移動の際は「強力（ごうりき）」と呼ばれる男性に担がれる。
On July 13, 2025, the young children of the Gion Festival's Naginata-hoko (Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City) leave the Naginata-hoko Town Hall for the "Shasan no Gi" ritual to visit Yasaka Shrine in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City. Under the harsh sunlight from the morning, they proceeded east along Shijo Street toward Yasaka Shrine.
The Shasan no Gi is also called "Okurai" and is considered to have attained the rank of "Shogoi Shosho," which is equivalent to the rank of a daimyo with a fief of 100,000 koku. After completing the ritual, the young children, who have become "messengers of the gods," are carried by a man called "Goriki" when moving around, so that their feet do not touch the ground.
0:12 長刀鉾の粽（ちまき）を買い求める人たちの長い行列 A long line of people waiting to buy Naginata Hoko chimaki (rice dumplings)
1:24 2人の「禿（かむろ）」が姿を見せる Two "Kamuro" boy arrived
1:52 稚児が姿を見せる A boy of Naginata Hoko has arrived
2:00 白馬にまたがる長刀鉾の稚児 A boy of Naginata Hoko riding a white horse
2:50 八坂神社に向かって出発する社参の行列 The procession to visit Yasaka Shrine departs
3:07 四条通を進む行列 A procession along Shijo Street
4:34 小休止する行列 A queue taking a short break
4:54 八坂神社御旅所の前を通る行列 A procession passing in front of Yasaka Shrine's Otabisho
