1. Kawagoe Festival is famous one of the Japanese traditional festivals.

2. Characters of Kawagoe-Festival
 -1) 2 days festival, October 20 and 21 this year (Saturday and Sunday of 3rd week of October)
 -2) Traditional Festival Music
 -3) Spectacular Float Parade
 -4) 350-year history
 -5) Traditional Floats are Prefecture's Cultural Assets
 -6) Gorgeous and cool Float Leader

3. Number of existing floats is 27 and this year 10 floats joined the festival.

Climax is collision and competition between floats. When floats meet on the corner, each float faces the front and competes.
The competition has no winner, however, exchange of festival music and wildly moving lantern are fantastic.
Coming!! Coming!! Win!! Win!! Festival goes climax by competition!! This corner of the Honkawagoe station is lively area to where many floats come from differnt direction.
Competition of King Rayon and Warrior Dokan Competition between Shintomi Town and General Shigeyori


This float was made in 1872 and very old Crowded crowded and crowded Float comes with voice of SOHREY. Wooden wheels make sounds when flot coms
Puppet is monkey and 130 years old. Float has two-story and tree wheels.
Competition begines Happy, Seven Deities of Good Fortune Lion dance plays with a child Fox dances on stage
Competition begins!! Lion dance and Seven Deities of Good Fortune come down into crowded people.
Puppet height 1m 90, Float height 6m10, Total 8m is high enogh. Contrast of Darkness and Japanese Lantern is beautifull This boy pierrot is 2m50cm high and conspicuous. Pierrot's business is to sell baloon for children and attracted many customers
Feel heritage None Japanese boy and mother pierrot sell balloon for children
Historical eldest Float. King Raryo Yellow drum is called Big Drum Special window roof was decorated by gold foil Two small drums
Puppet is King Rayon of Japanese Noh Play. Float was made in around 1850. Two-story and Four wheels. Oldest float.
White cloth of center is called Grand Drapery Top puppet is 1 m 90 cm high, King Raryo Extention chamber is to make it short to go under the catsle gate Upper floor is the best place to look at the puppet
Reformed in 1902 as revolving stage in advance of others Higher than left photo 2nd floor is best place to see
Our local town Arajuku is not in old city, stationary dance music oly This is local and stationary music too Hello Kity, Dolphin, big baloons are catchy Pokemon, Kity, famous charactors
Our town's stationary dancing bright color and dancing street shops and big balloon
Chinese charactors on lantern are catchier than puppet Hand stand on top of high ladder, release hands, big applaud Cold but a girl expose her shoulder Player folds his hands to copy fox
Catchy lantern Fearful tall ladder Puppet is a man who made the castle
Fox stands up with two legs This is eye-catching float looking gorgeous by lantern lights Droll fellow and fan, festival standard Big circle by hands means happy
Float is second story and four wheels, revolving stage, made in 1952, bigger than others
Stationary dance and float, contrast between moving and stationary without gold and silver, not a shiny style People, darkness and lantern, festival becomes climax at night
made in 1958, second story, four wheels, revolving stage。
Our local town has a float, more than 10 years This float parades only in our town, local but begining of the festival Most famous First-Street before float parade Famous Hour Bell and sunset
Parade only in our local town Crowded famous First-Street The Hour Bell is celebrating too
Chinese characters on festival kimono are same as float name Nice looking of this fox face This has been always stayed in here, actually owner is neighboring town.
made in 1997, plain wood, puppet was made in 2000, second story, four wheels,revolving stage Always there, no parade
many street shops make festival atmosphere Crowded people in the grand station plaza Lantern of float, festival kimono wear, lantern of leading people, twon lights move wildly Light-up objet d'art
Crowded people around the station Light-up small float
Carving of festival music stage, beautiful gold foil Cheering voice is SOH-REY A person on top of float is kind of guide who watched around there
Puppet was made by famous Japanese doll manufacturer
Oh, he does not look Japanese Sound of Japanese flute adds atmosphere of festival, wow, competition begins New float has nice looking Second story of float is called upper four direction curtain
Second story, four wheels,revolving stage,made in 1993
Competition starts, voice follows SOHREY SOHRE I like this amusing face of mask-man This float has beautiful gold curving in music stage Density without floaat is not so crowded, but it is difficult to walk around float
Festival music is Okura sect
Small drums sound TSUNTSUKU TEN TEN, TSUNTSUKU TEN TEN, don't do? Float goes into this crowded people Happy red and white curtain adds festival style, atmosphere is different a little from street shops
Original was made in 1953, reformed in 1982, new puppet was made then
Two big floats pass by in narrow street Lots of lantern, lively float Gold curving, red lantern, lantern of float name, good balance Visible lantern
second story, four wheels, revolving stage
This place has advantage Because this large plaza is just in front of station, then people come automatically Adding to it, this corner has four roads and floats come from each direction So to say, flaat street
made in 1972 near Kawagoe
Lion dancing is one of happy, New Year Days attractions This player seems easy because movement is slow Nobody can understand but a lady of this mask face was thought beautiful This float almost stays in here because other floats and people come to this place
four wheels, revolving stage
Helo, white fox, you seem to be perfect from movement or hands style Big face and thick eye brow, can't you see him next to you? Night darkness leads festival climax Lively float, big plaza and crowded people, The Festival
Crowded people in front of the station
本拠地は市役所広場です。 This is mid of the begining day, less peaple around Bite acting lion dance and crying child, standard of a festival Old style storage house street, gorgeous floats, 2003 is year of 80th aniversary as City, all 27 floats parade, come to Kawagoe!!
Float was made in around 1960, puppet was made in 1949, second story, four wheels, revolving stage

2001/12/03Going back to Yume dreams Gallery