NIPPON Kichi - 日本吉

2007/6/19

北上みちのく芸能まつり Kitakami-michinoku-geinou-matsuri Kitakami-Michinoku Performing Arts Festival

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Kitakami-Michinoku Performing Arts Festival is held for three days from the 1st Saturday in August every year in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture. It is counted as one of the six biggest festivals in the Tohoku region. Kitakami City is called the treasure trove of folk performing arts and there are a lot of performing art groups in the city.

During the festival days, more than 100 kinds of folk performing arts including Deer Dance and Kagura Dance are performed day and night at many places in the city. The most attractive is Oni-kenbai (the ogres’ sword dance), in which the dancer wearing a dreadful mask of an ogre, which is actually the transformed Buddha, shows valiant dancing.

The festival is culminated with the lantern float called “Torokko Nagashi” and the fireworks display held on the riverbank of the Kitakami River, where a lot of citizens and tourists come to enjoy the finale of the largest summer festival of the city.

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address
Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture 024-0000
name
Kitakami-Michinoku Performing Arts Festival
phone
0197-65-0300
email
ksa@kitakami.ne.jp
hp
http://www.kitakami.org/maturi/




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