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Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Kagoshima

鹿児島県の重要無形民俗文化財

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Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Ichiki Tanabata Dance

A nationally designated folk art with a roughly 400-year history in Ōzato, Kagoshima: giant animal figures, costumed columns and a drum dance, paused since 2022.

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Various Dumb Plays

Kakeroma Island men in paper kabidira masks perform 11 dances, skits, and puppet plays at Oochon Shrine on lunar September 9, a tradition said to span 800 years.

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Tanegashima Homan Shrine's Rice Planting Festival

Each April 3 on Tanegashima, Hōman Shrine plants red rice in sacred paddies after a before-dawn sea purification, with a couple performing an old planting dance.

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Bun'ya Togo Bun'ya Style Puppet Theater

In Kagoshima, the Tōgō Bunya-bushi Ningyō Jōruri sets puppets to bunya-bushi, a narration older than bunraku's. It is one of only four such traditions left in Japan.

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Arasetsu Event in Akina

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Boze on Akuseki Island

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Iwakawa Yagoro Doll Event

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Toshidon of Koshikijima

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Mendon on Satsuma Iwojima

Kagoshima Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Sendai Great Tug-of-War