The festival is held during the Mushi-oi (insect repelling) Festival at the Honmura Shrine, and consists of eight to ten "bachi"-bearers, two drummers, one drummer with a small drum, three performers with flutes, one person playing a gong, one playing a conch shell, and about ten flag bearers. The A"bachi"-bearers take turns beating the big drum while dancing. In the past, they used to beat the drum while walking around the rice fields, but now they beat it in the shrine precincts before the festival.