02651nas a2200313   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002500043653002800068653001100096653001000107653001000117653001800127653002400145653002100169653002000190653004200210653001300252653002400265653001500289653002100304100001200325245014300337856014600480300001200626490000700638520167200645022002002317                                       d10aCenter of Kyoto City10aDynamics of populations10aHonshu10aJapan10aKinki10aKyoto [Kinki]10aKyoto [Kyoto (PRF)]10aManagement bases10aUrban festivals10aYama-Hoko Events of the Gion Festival10afestival10apopulation dynamics10aurban area10aurban population1 aH. Sato00aThe restructuring of the management bases of Yama-Hoko Events of Gion Festival in Kyoto: Succession of urban festivals in the current city  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028668888&doi=10.4200%2fjjhg.68.3_273&partnerID=40&md5=a2c973dc5e5bea2765e49ec13e61df34  a273-2960 v683 aIn 2015, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, decided to re-propose "Yama-Hoko-Yatai Events" for a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Agency sees the events  values in the fact that people in local communities all together commit to the events, wishing for their communities  peace and disaster-prevention. The events have been gathering momentum for their registration all over Japan. On the other hand, dynamics of populations in cities these days make the passing down of urban festivals more difficult. This paper, therefore, investigates the management bases of urban festivals from social, economic and locational aspects in order to suggest how to pass them down to following generations. As an example, the paper takes the Yama-Hoko Events of the Gion Festival that takes place in the center of Kyoto City every July. My fieldwork and statistical analysis reveal the current situation of management bases of 33 Yama-Hoko floats and their historical changes. The districts which own the floats in the city center are different from each other in terms of demography and land use. So are their management bases, reflecting the differences of the districts. What my research finds out is that such historical changes in demography and land use resulted in restructuring of each float s management base. Changes in urban structure led to restructuring of the management bases of urban festivals, which affects how urban festivals are passed down from generation to generation. This paper, therefore, insists that we need to pay more attention to the restructuring of the management bases when considering the succession of urban festivals all over Japan.  a00187216 (ISSN)