Introduction of The Festival

Mimi Shrine Annual Festival Fukui Pref

O-no-mai

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O-no-mai means King’s dance, which is performed at the annual festival of Mimi Shrine. The dancers wearing red clothes, long-nosed goblin masks, crowns of Chinese Phoenix and Japanese white socks perform to a musical accompaniment played by gongs and drums.

Category
Dance
Location(s)
Aso, Mihama, Mikata District, Fukui Prefecture Mimi Shrine
Date(s) of Matsuri
1.May
Contact
Access
Twenty minutes walk from JR Mihama Station
URL
Conservation Group
O-no-mai Hozonkai
Note
Intangible folk cultural assets designated by the prefecture