32：地域とのつながり ー弥生祭ー Connection with the local community - Yayoi Festival

金谷ホテルでは、毎年4月に行われる「日光弥生祭」の際に、上鉢石町の花家体（はなやたい※）を正面玄関前にてお迎えしております。
At Kanaya Hotel, The Nikko Yayoi Festival held every April, we welcome the Hanayatai* from Kamihatsuishi-cho* in front of the main entrance.
*Hanayatai　Decorated floats with Yashio azalea
*The town where Kanaya Hotel is located

日光弥生祭は毎年4月13日～17日（家体巡行は16日の宵祭と17日の本祭りの二日間）に行われる、1,200年以上続く、日光に春を告げる二荒山神社の例祭です。
大祭当日の17日は町衆が行う「付け祭」が行われます。この付祭は江戸の元禄期頃から始まったと伝わります。
日光の各町内から出る11台の花家体が日光囃子を奏でながら門前町や境内を彩ります。

The Nikko Yayoi Festival is held every year from April 13th to 17th (the family procession takes place over two days, the evening festival on the 16th and the main festival on the 17th), and is an annual festival of Futarasan Shrine that has been going for over 1,200 years, heralding the arrival of spring in Nikko.
On the 17th, the day of the main festival, the "Tsukematsuri" festival is held by the townspeople. This Tsukematsuri festival is said to have begun around the Genroku period of the Edo period.
Eleven Hanayatai from each neighborhood of Nikko to color  the temple town and temple grounds while playing Nikko music.

http://www.nikko-kankou.org/event/26/
http://www.futarasan.jp/yayoi/

※日光では屋台を家体と表記します。