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Namahage is a traditional Japanese folklore about people dressed as demons looking for bad children around Lunar New Year. There are many origin stories about this custom, which you can read more about on Wikipedia. To commemorate this tradition, the city of Oga in Akita prefecture holds an annual Namahage Sedo festival.
After two years of the festival being cancelled and then reduced, I finally had the opportunity to attend this festival. I visited the event and watched as the history of Namahage was presented. I saw namahage danced around a huge bonfire, namahage dance accompanied by a powerful Japanese taiko drum performance and namahage procession carrying fire torches through the crowd. The last event was namahage walking around, searching for “bad children”.
There was no way that there were any cats around, but there were many crying babies. 😹.
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21 Comments
As someone from the Netherlands this is just absolutely bohemian to me but nonetheless amazing to see! Great video!
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Damn! i missed this. "Na mage mono wa ine ga, Nai deru warashi wa ine ga!"
Some parts look just too similar to German carnival in my region. Like the oni look like our monsters here.
Thank you for the all the wonderful videos, whether in the hustle and bustle or outside the hustle and bustle, greetings from good old germany 🇩🇪🇯🇵👏🏼👍
Amazing! Japanese festivals and folklore always have such elaborate and intricate rituals and stories. It always interests me to learn more and more about Japanese culture.
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thanks for filming all that you do, Rammy! I enjoy seeing the festival and convention videos as much as the others. Nice glimpses into the culture!
Haha! "Emotional Damage!"😂
I just love Japanese local festivals, very vibrant, very atmospheric, and they got loads of them all over Japan throughout the year.
Yes. Japan is a very racist country. They hardly allow any refugees or immigration from other 3rd world countries. Behind closed doors they think it's very shameful to integrate or mix races.
Simply crushing it with the amazing quality audio and video from your camera rig. 👏
I peed my panti a little bit I must admit
我想孩子們回家會做惡夢
鏡頭前 我都覺得好可怕喔
哈哈😆⋯⋯
I hate children.
more videos like these!!!
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This is in a remote location. How did all these people get there?
Спасибо за прогулки я с вашими видео встречаю все сезоны года в этой красивой стране
I'm in a few of these shots! I hope you had fun filming the festival, I had a lot of fun visiting it!! Please come to Akita again!
yeah finally after 3 years. This festival also teaches kids to have good manner or Namahage gonna take them, kinda for scarring kids.
I thought gonna see John in this video, did you see him Rem? 😁