Matsubara Hachiman Shrine, Shirahama-cho, Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture Records from October 15, 2001 (Heisei 13) and 2002 (Heisei 14) The Nada Festival, also known as the Nada Kenka Matsuri (Nada Fighting Festival), is a unique Shinto ritual where portable shrines (mikoshi) are violently crashed together. It is considered one of the strangest festivals in the country and is said to be the largest fighting festival in Japan. It has been known as a representative festival of Banshu Harima since before the war. In 2001, witnessing the accident where a man in white clothing fell from a fighting mikoshi and was crushed to death under the overturned shrine, I was moved by the magnificence of the brave, naked festival performed at the risk of life. This is a commemorative work born from the desire to capture the romance and emotion of men, and to document naked festivals across the country. It is said that the festival began in 1467 (the first year of the Onin era) when Matsubara Hachiman Shrine was burned down during the Onin War. The feudal lord, Masanori Akamatsu, worked hard to rebuild the shrine, and donated 200 bales of rice for the completion ceremony. The delighted parishioners are said to have piled the rice bales on wooden frames and carried them to Otabiyama. The autumn festival of Matsubara Hachiman Shrine has become famous nationwide for the "Mikoshi Awase" (Shrine Clash), where the mikoshi are violently crashed against each other. Because it looks like a fight, it came to be called the Nada Kenka Matsuri (Nada Fighting Festival). The violent crashing of the mikoshi is said to represent the scene of warships, which were anchored off the coast of Shirahama to wait for the wind during the Empress Jingu's expedition to the Three Korean Kingdoms, colliding with each other due to the waves. It is also said to represent the act of scraping off goina (oysters) attached to these warships. In any case, it is a very unique Shinto ritual performed with the unity of gods and people, praying for a bountiful harvest. This is a feature-length film with 390 frames and a running time of 34 minutes. For this CD release, 200 frames re-recorded from the original images have been added to the 120 images already published on the internet for two years, and the explanatory images have been reorganized, making it a valuable record work full of romance and emotion, befitting the origin of the Naked Festival series. [Note] For MS-Windows compatible computers. It will not work on DVD players connected to a TV. You can watch it on the TV screen by connecting your computer to the TV with an HDMI cable and switching to external input.