Dandara Chochin Gyoretsu (Dandara Lantern Procession)

Category Name:Annual Event

This is a traditional Bon festival event passed down in the community. About 100 children parade through the town with small lanterns including lanterns of hollowed-out vegetables. They walk to welcome the ancestors during the lunar calendar Bon Festival. The parade starts at 7:30 p.m., and children in yukata (light cotton kimono) walk for about 30 minutes between houses, each holding a lantern and singing "Dandara chochin toboshita, kitsune no yomeiri itachi no nakadachi.”

Municipality

Kumamoto City

Category

Annual Event

Specific Location

Takahashi- machi

Cultural Property Designation

Performance Date(s)

Performance Location

Western Kumamoto City Senior Citizens' Workshop〜Tsuboi Riverbed

Preservation Society

Takahashi Community Revitalization Society