Owari Manzai New Year Dedication Performance
Japanese name:尾張万歳新春奉納公演
📅 Fri, Jan 1, 2027
About this event
A New Year's dedication performance of Owari Manzai, a traditional performing art considered the origin of Kamigata Manzai. Manzai is an ancient Japanese celebratory performing art in which performers visit individual homes in the new year to pray for safety and prosperity for the household, featuring a duo consisting of a tayu and a saizo who recite auspicious blessings and engage in comical banter. Celebrating the new year and wishing for family safety and prosperity while welcoming laughter and good fortune, this performance features Kadoduke Manzai, Sankyoku Manzai, and Goten Manzai—parts of Owari Manzai (a Nationally Designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property) said to have been passed down in the Chita region since the Kamakura period—dedicated within the grounds of Owari Hachiman Shrine. Visitors can enjoy this auspicious traditional performing art that brings happiness to worshippers at the start of the new year.
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Owari Hachiman Shrine
86 Hachiman Arakogo, Chita, Aichi 478-0001
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