Event: ‘Yamaga Toro Matsuri’
Traditional Festivals
Duration: 2 Days
Repeat Event: Every Year
This festival held in the city of Yamaga, is celebrated in the temple of Omiya. It is one of the three major festivals on the fire in Kumamoto, known as the land of fire.
During the same 1000 women, dressed in the summer cotton kimono, carrying paper lanterns gold and silver in their hands, they dance all night while singing “Yoheho-bushi” to a very slow and deliberate pace.
The men play the scene that gives rise to the festival, welcoming the emperor on his arrival in the city and lined up in long rows in a procession with flaming torches and dressed in old clothes.
