秋田竿燈まつり The Kanto Festival ("pole lantern festival") volition guide keep house this yr in Akita city from August 3-6. H5N1 pre-festival number likewise takes house on August 2nd. 
The Kanto Festival has its roots in the Edo Period as well as is a harvest festival, meant to delight the gods to bestow a bountiful crop. Beautifully painted newspaper lanterns, in ane trial illuminated amongst candles, as well as similar a shot mainly amongst electrical lights are attached to bamboo poles as well as balanced past times their bearers using their hands, foreheads as well as hips. The poles as well as the lanterns tin weigh betwixt 5-50kg as well as the largest are every bit long every bit 12 meters. Over xl lanterns tin live on attached to the poles. The matsuri is accompanied past times the music of drums as well as flutes amongst spectators chanting "dokkoisho, dokkoisho". The master copy parade road is along Chuo Dori as well as takes house at nighttime for close xc minutes until close 10.30pm. Around 250 "kanto" poles are hoisted as well as carried along the road each evening. Daytime events are held at Agora Plaza exterior the Seibu Department Store inwards Akita from 10am-5pm. 
The Kanto Festival is ane of northern Japan's biggest festivals along amongst the Tanabata festival inwards Sendai as well as the Nebuta festival inwards Aomori. 
To encounter a demonstration of the festival caput to the Akita City Folklore & Performing Art Center where visitors tin encounter a alive functioning of the incredible balancing acts as well as likewise sentinel videos of past times festivals. Costumes, instruments as well as posters from the Akita Festival are likewise on display. Information inwards English linguistic communication is available on the official website: www.kantou.gr.jp © JapanVisitor.com Guide Books on Tokyo Japan & Japan Sumber https://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/