Akita Kanto Matsuri - Japanese Pole Balancing Festival 秋田の竿灯
Kanto Matsuri in Akita City of the Tohoku region is a Japanese festival where people balance tall bamboo poles strung with paper lanterns known as kanto on their hands, head, and hips. Some of them are 12 meters long and weigh about 50kgs/110lbs. The 300-year old festival from about August 3-6 is done to pray for successful harvests and drive away disease.
Kanto Matsuri (festival) in Akita, Japan
Akita Kanto Matsuri (festival), held every year from August 3rd to 6th in Akita city, Akita Prefecture, is a traditional festival that has been going on since the Edo period and is one of the three biggest festivals of the Tohoku region along with Nebuta Matsuri of Aomori and Tanabata Matsuri of Sendai, Miyagi.
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Akita Kanto Matsuri | Japanese Summer Festival
The Akita Kantō (秋田竿燈まつり) is a Japanese festival celebrated from 3–7 August in Akita City, Akita Prefecture in hope for a good harvest. Around two hundred bamboo poles five to twelve metres long, bearing twenty-four or forty-six lanterns, topped with gohei, and weighing up to fifty kilograms, are carried through the streets by night on the palms, foreheads, shoulders, or lower backs of the celebrants.
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Giant poles with lanterns balanced precariously on various body parts? Yes, please! This time on NEXT STOP, we take a summer excursion up to Akita City in Akita Prefecture to gaze upon one of the most famous summer festivals in Japan, the Kanto Matsuri. Take some time and join us as we marvel at feats of strength and take in this wonderful tradition of Akita!
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The Kanto Matsuri in Akita City (Akita Prefecture) is one of the most famous festivals in Japan. I have visited many festivals in Japan now and this is one of most fun and unique ones. It is not too crowded, you can try to hold the lanterns yourself and you are much closer to the action! It's very spectacular during the night with all the illuminated lanterns.
And don't forget to try all the delicious Akita foods, it was so good!! We tried Ina Niwa Udon, Baba Hera Ice Cream and Kiritanpo. I can really recommend to pay a visit to the famous Kiritanpoya restaurant in Akita, it was one of my best restaurant experiences so far in Japan. Here is the information:
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Akita Kanto Festival
Akita Kanto Festival is a festival which uses kanto (long bamboo pole), and is held every year in the beginning of August at Akita City,
Akita Prefecture. It is said that the origin started as “Neburi-Nagashi”
(sweeping drowsiness away), an event in Edo period to repel illnesses and evil spirits, and then it linked with praying for an
abundant harvest of 5 grains. Kanto is crossed bamboo poles with paper lanterns. The largest one achieves a height of about 12 meters and a weight of about 50 kilograms.The performers called Sashite uphold and balance the large kanto with their hands, foreheads or hips, and compete their techniques with each other. Whole kanto resembles ear of rice and arrays of paper lanterns are
compared to the straw bags of rice. Sashite put kanto on their
foreheads, hips or shoulders to pray for a huge harvest. At night, 10,000 paper lanterns light up the street and createmystical
beauty together with the sounds of drum and flute. The festival was designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural
Property in 1980, and along with Aomori Nebuta Festival and Sendai
Tanabata Festival, it is counted among the Three Great Festival of
the Tohoku region.
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One of the three main festivals in the region, the Akita Kanto Matsuri is held in early August each year. This summer festival is held to pray for a good harvest of the five grains grown in the region: wheat, rice, beans, foxtail millet and Chinese millet.
Using only their hips, shoulders or foreheads, young people wearing traditional festival garb take turns hoisting up eight-meter-high bamboo poles decorated with 46 paper lanterns and shreds of paper, all secured by wooden sticks. They then parade through the town to the sound of flutes and drums, all the while shouting with enthusiasm and ensuring that the light in the lanterns does not go out.
The Coolest Stuff on the Planet - The Akita Kanto Festival
The Kanto Festival in Akita City, Japan, is a harvest festival famous for music, parades, chanting -- and men balancing giant poles of lanterns on various parts of their bodies. Discover why the Kanto Festival is Cool Stuff in this episode.
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Tsuchizaki Minato Hikiyama Festival, floats from each neighborhood decorated w/ large dolls displaying brave samurai warriors parading down the street accompanied by chanting, dancing and folk music.The matsuri reaches its climax on the 21st when the floats( hikiyama) return to their towns in parade known as modoriyama.
I was very happy that i've experienced this kind of festival here in akita japan. So enjoy watching guys.
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i uploaded it anyways xD better late then never, right?
Anyways, during the last few months of my stay in Japan, i and a few of my friends decided to go on a road trip up the northern part of Japan, to Aomori and Akita, to enjoy the three GREAT tohoku summer festival. Akita's Kanto matsuri attracts a massive amount of tourists every year, making it one of the biggest festival in the northern Japan. Going up to the far northern part of Tohoku Region made me fell in love with it! The drive was just beautiful! Other than Kanto matsuri, we went to Aomori's nebuta matsuri too the day before (I uploaded the vlog too go check em up!)
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Akita Kanto Festival
Akita Kanto Festival
46 lanterns on 15 meter high bamboo pole, which weighs more than 50 kg is balanced and held on foreheads and lower backs of performers! It is just amazing to see their performance.
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The Kanto Matsuri (竿燈まつり, pole lantern festival) is a Tanabata related celebration in Akita City, held every year from August 3 to 6. The highlight of the festival is an impressive display of skill in which performers balance kanto (long bamboo poles) with arrays of paper lanterns attached to the end. The Kanto Matsuri together with Aomori's Nebuta Festival and Sendai's Tanabata makes up the three great festivals of the Tohoku Region.
The kanto poles come in different sizes with the largest measuring 12 meters, weighing 50 kilograms and carrying as many as 46 paper lanterns, lit by real candles. To the sound of drums, flutes and onlookers chanting dokkoisho, dokkoisho, each kanto is hoisted up by a single performer who balance them on end using various techniques. The performers change every few minutes and gradually add extensions to the pole until the kanto are at their maximum height.
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A look at the wonderful Kanto Festival in Akita, Japan. For a good harvest, the tall bamboo lanterns represent ears of rice.
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akita kanto matsuri
hello!!! i know its been a while, but happy new year! to start off 2019 i present a mini montage of clips from a museum we visited in akita city as well as a summer festival akita has called kanto matsuri
you can learn more about kanto matsuri here ⇩
thank you so much for watching! i have a few more videos planned from my japan trip (i've been super behind but plan to finish them soon!)
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Akita Kanto Matsuri at Odaiba YUME-TAIRIKU 【Fuji TV Official】
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The main theme for this year's Odaiba YUME-TAIRIKU is Japanese Matsuri, or the summer festivals. For 3 days from July 18 to 20, Odaiba YUME-TAIRIKU has featured Akita Kanto Matsuri (pole lantern festival of Akita City). The highlight of the Kanto Festival is the highly physical, dynamic show of performers in which performers balance kanto (long bamboo poles) with arrays of paper lanterns attached to the end. The performance consists of five techniques: Nagashi (basic); Hirate (palm); Hitai (forehead); Kata (shoulder). There will be other famous regional summer festivals coming to Odaiba YUME-TAIRIKU, so come have fun and taste the flavor of local traditions right here in Odaiba!!
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