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KAWAGOE FESTIVAL
The Kawagoe Festival has developed both by maintaining a history of over 360 years as an invaluable town festival that preserves the style and elegance of the Edo "Tenka Matsuri", as In 2005, the festival was designated as a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property under the title of ‘Kawagoe Hikawa Festival Float Event’

The Kawagoe Festival’s biggest highlight: ‘Hikkawase’. As they face each other, the several festival floats compete with each other in a hayashi performance (a traditional Japanese orchestra comprised of flutes, drums, handbells and dancing), cheered on by the excited voices of festival-goers holding aloft paper lanterns. The excitement reaches its climax with the evening ‘Hikkawase’.

www.koedo.or.jp/foreign/english/intro.html
kawagoematsuri.jp/English/index.html
kawagoematsuri.jp/English/dashi.html
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  • Taken: Oct 16, 2010
  • Uploaded: Oct 17, 2010
  • Updated: Feb 5, 2015