• Kawagoe Festival is the biggest event in Kawagoe once a year. Number of the tourists who visit the festival is so called 500,000 or 400,000 people. Thousands of thousands people are there at that time. Tourists seems to be increasing every year.

• The photographs were taken this time in October in 2004 for the aim of dolls on top of the floats that gathered in front of the city hall. Town names and doll names were recorded under the each photo.

West Kosenba Town, Doll is Susanou-God in Japanese myth.	Sankubo Town, Doll is Raiko Minamoto who was a samurai warrior in 948-1021.		Wakita Town, Ieyasu Tokugawa who was a founder of Edo era.
Floats in front of the city hall.	Crowds on the street.	Motomachi-town, Doll is King Raryo.	Matsue Town, Doll is Urashima.
Float of Kawagoe city. Doll is the Chinese orangutan of imaginary living thing in China and was used at happy occasions.
Maruhiro Department Store in the city made it in 1990. It was donated to Kawagoe City in 2002 for commemorating the 80th municipal anniversary and to use it in the city.
Heave-ho heave-ho.	The long-nosed mask.	Tone of flute, festival music and drum.	The floats queue up at two o'clock of Sunday.
Renjyaku Town. Doll is Dokan Ota in 1432-1489 made Kawagoe castle and Edo castle in 1457.		Senba Town, doll is Jiro Senba who governed this area 500 years ago.
Torimachi Town, Doll is Red Ogre who is believed to prevent epidemic in China with thick beard.		Sintomi Town, doll is Mirror lion in a Kabuki story of traditional Japanese play.
Nakahara Town, doll is Taro Kawagoe who was a origin of the name of the city.			Not possible to approach floats by lots of people.
Noda Town, Doll is Taro Hachiman was a general of Gengi family in 1039-1106.		Sugawara Town, doll is under consideration.	Parading after this.

2005/01/01