Oppa no Ohinagayu (National Selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property)

About this event

Oppa no Ohinagayu is one of the representative traditional events of Ueno Village and is designated as a National Selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property. It is a traditional event passed down by children, modeled after a folklore in which villagers rescued a princess who came floating down the Kanna River and cheered her up by serving rice porridge. Early in the morning on April 3 every year, children of the Oppa district gather on the riverbed of the Kanna River, eating rice porridge for breakfast and playing energetically while gathered around a kotatsu inside a circular stone castle decorated with Hina dolls. This is a traditional sacred ritual born from a spirit-sending ceremony, and is also cherished as a one-month-delayed Hina Matsuri. Watching the children cooperate to prepare the kotatsu and breakfast is also one of the highlights.

Venue

Kawa-no-Eki Ueno (Uenomura Fureai-kan)

316-1 Narahara, Ueno, Tano District, Gunma 370-1617