About this event
Boasting a 300-year tradition handed down in Fukuda-cho, Takehara City, Hiroshima Prefecture, this lion dance is designated as an Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Hiroshima Prefecture. It is performed and dedicated during the autumn festival of Ino Shrine. Four boys turning 12 years old in the traditional Japanese age reckoning (kazoedoshi) that year dress as chigo (sacred children) wearing peony flower crowns and beat drums, to which parent-and-child lions dance in unison. It is said to have originated during the mid-Edo period after Fukuda suffered natural disasters, as a prayer for children's health and safety and a bountiful grain harvest. The event features chigo dances, lion dance dedications, shrine rituals, and the departure of the mikoshi (portable shrine).
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Ino Shrine
1001-2 Fukudacho, Takehara, Hiroshima 729-2312
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