「力石」について(<特集>力石)

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The weight-lifting game by using stone is played in the mountain areas in Switzerland and Spain. Also in Japan, it has been played among the people since the Edo Era (1603〜1867), and it was called " chikara-ishi". Such chikara-ishi is now found here and there at shrines and temples in the northern part of Awaji Island, in Hyogo Prefecture. Those who did this stone-lifting were the young serfs named "Otoko-shi". In summer, in the evenings, when their work was over, they gathered in a meeting place or a shrine or the grounds of a temple in twos and threes and they competed for strength by lifting or practiced carrying stones. But as the change of social structure brought about a decline in the number of people of the " otoko-shi-class", labor became mechanized and the way of recreation was changed, and stonelifting has ceased to be played and only the reminiscences of the past are shown in monuments.
上智大学の論文
1968-02-15