Hachinohe Portal Museum hacchi opened in 2011 as a new center of exchange and creation to revitalize Hachinohe City as a whole, including it’s downtown areas, by generating urban attractions while cherishing traditional local resources.
This marionette clock was designed free a simultaneous jaw-snapping dance performed by dancers wearing lion masks in Horyo Kagura Shintō dance, a folk art performance to pray for health and happiness. The marionettes are set in motion every hour to tell time.
“>1137 size-full” src=”http://voyagertree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_1017272137753606.jpg” alt=”” width=”3000″ height=”2250″ /> Held in downtown Hachinohe each year for five days from July 31st to August 4th to pray for a rich harvest, the Hachinohe Sansha Taisai Festival is a festival with time-honored tradition of approximately 290 years. The portable shrine parade of the Sansha shrine is followed by 27 gorgeously decorated floats, which overwhelm the spectators. The festival is designated as important intangible folk cultural property.[/caption]
