The tradition
The Awa Dance Festival (阿波踊り, Awa Odori) is held from 12 to 15 August as part of the Obon festival in Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku in Japan. Awa Odori is the largest dance festival in Japan, attracting over 540 thousand tourists every year. Groups of choreographed dancers and musicians known as ren (連) dance through the streets, typically accompanied by the shamisen lute, taiko drums, shinobue flute and the kane bell. Performers wear traditional obon dance costumes, and chant and sing as they parade through the streets. Awa is the old feudal administration name for Tokushima Prefecture, and odori means "dance".¶
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Awa Dance Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶
Awa Dance Festival is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 8 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
0 claims and 0 timeline entries on this page draw on 1 sources, deduplicated by publisher.
| Source | Type | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata: Awa Dance Festival (Q1185363) | database | Wikidata |
Do you practise or teach Awa Dance Festival?
Correct what is wrong, add what is missing, and cite your source — every edit is a claim, and every claim needs one. The full history of this page is public and append-only.