Taimatsu-akashi is held at Kuriyasawa in Sukagawa City, Fukushima Pref. on the second Saturday of November every year. The festival with a history of 400 years is counted as one of Japan’s Three Big Fire Festivals. 150 dashing young men from Sukagawa City carry together a large torch of 10 m in length and 3 tons in weight and parade through the town. The torch parade is followed by a group of boys and girls in samurai armor and the samurai procession of the castellan of Sukagawa Castle and his vassals. The whole town is filled with exciting atmosphere of the festival. At the top of the nearby mountain, while the dashing young men with hachimaki (headband) around their head beat the Taimatsu-daiko drums, as many as 30 torches and the fancy torches set to mock the shape of the castle are fired up one after another. The whole mountain looks as if it is the sea of fire. Fire and drumbeat make spectators slip into delusion of being transported back to the Warring State period.