Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Saitama

Each August 15 in Misato, Saitama, children aged six to eighteen climb a ridge and light 108 mounded fires honoring the medieval warrior Inomata Koheiroku.

Towering Edo-style floats parade through Kawagoe's storehouse streets each October for the Hikawa Shrine festival, facing off in the famed hikkawase music contest.

A masked, wordless kagura at Tamashiki Shrine in Saitama, a national folk cultural property, danced through a repeated four-corner pattern at four festivals a year.

A masked sacred dance held six times a year at a shrine in Saitama. Dancers move in symmetry to flute, drums and Heian-era song, in a form preserved since the 1720s.

Saitama’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.