@article{oai:suzuka.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001455,
 author = {MAHONEY, Brian James},
 journal = {鈴鹿国際大学紀要Campana, Suzuka International University journal campana},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This essay reveals the story behind the Seki summer festival, its magnificent wooden floats, and especially the music that transforms the event from an earthly pleasure to an art form of emotion that is part of Japan's performance culture. An introduction to Seki town history and the role it has so profoundly played in Japan'sown long and vibrant development is also ripe for a new discovery. The aforementioned rites of summertime would not have been lifted to such artistic and spiritual heights if it were not for the underlying transcendence of Seki. Upon becoming the first foreigner to join one of Seki's oldest and most splendid festival groups theKozaki Matsuri Bayashi(1), I would like to extend some of my observations and bring to the attention of my reader, the extraordinary significance of Seki town-not just as an ancient point of defense nor as a checkpoint by which tolls were paid, goods checked and travellers took rest, but as the point of departure between the glorious, the sacred, and that of the new frontier of Japan., 13, KJ00007773279, 研究論文, Research Paper},
 pages = {135--143},
 title = {Standing at the Crossroads of Seki},
 volume = {18},
 year = {2012}
}