Noshiro City is located in the northern part of Akita Prefecture, facing the Sea of ​​Japan and has a population of about 50,000. The city is famous for its forestry and fisheries industries, and is also known as the "basketball town" because many famous basketball players have been produced there.The city center of Noshiro has long suffered from sand blown by the sea breeze. In order to prevent this, 7 million pine trees have been planted since the Edo period, boasting an area 163 times the size of Tokyo Dome, and is called "Kaze no Matsubara". This scale is said to be the largest among all the pine groves in Japan. The harbor winds are ferocious. While it is converted into human energy as wind power generation, it also carries a large amount of flying sand that threatens human life. I want to think about this land while feeling the wind.

For all three members, the theme of this production is wind.In it, Inamura added elements of basketball to Shishi. Intuitively, I felt that the act of kicking a basketball has a similar meaning to the rebellious gesture seen in folk performing arts, or the sumo wrestler's stepping on his legs. In other words, the act of stepping on or hitting the earth is an act of calming the spirit of the earth, and it can be said that it is a kind of act of exorcism similar to lion dance. Walking has been important when understanding the land. Stepping on the ground with the soles of the feet is associated with "remembering the land." The act of hitting a basketball is also a personal attempt to remember the land through the presence of the third leg.

While Inamura was dancing around in the form of Shishi, Kudo put sand in a rice bag at the cape, went to the vicinity of Noshiro Station, and returned, performing a performance of carrying sand. I carried a sandbag of the same weight as myself, and adopted a device that gradually overflowed the sand from a small hole. It is said that this is likened to the wind itself, and expresses how the wind carries sand. At Sissi's funeral at the end, there was a tangle of being thrown a basketball by Sissi.In addition, Funayama attached a net of flotsam picked up on the beach to a wooden stick to create a musical instrument that makes a whining sound. As for the costume, I wore overalls like those worn by fishermen and craftsmen. In addition to this instrument, I played the flute near the cape at Shishi's last funeral, and had a session with Inamura's Shishi.

In addition, Funayama attached a net of flotsam picked up on the beach to a wooden stick to create a musical instrument that makes a whining sound. As for the costume, I wore overalls like those worn by fishermen and craftsmen. In addition to this instrument, I played the flute near the cape at Shishi's last funeral, and had a session with Inamura's Shishi.

In general, it was felt that there is a high possibility that lion dances can live in Noshiro City. After five hours of long performance, I found that parading is effective in getting into a trance state. This was done based on the prediction that it would be possible to get closer to a body that incorporates the nature of the land only by being manipulated by the environment. A more straight path seemed to eliminate useless thoughts and make it easier to approach a trance state. On the other hand, in the vicinity of the port, which was made in a complicated way, I sometimes had a self-consciousness about where and how to move. Since it is not always possible to deliver the optimum performance on the spot, it seems that the sense of increasing the number of drawers and searching for the optimum by performing for a long time was an important method for connecting to the truth of the land.(February 26th to March 4th, 2023)