Okinawa Zento Eisa Festival attendance reaches record high at 34,000 people

Okinawa Zento Eisa Festival attendance reaches record high at 34,000 people

On the night of September 2 the Yamazato Youth Group brings the festival to a strong close at Koza Athletic Park in Okinawa City. (Photograph by Soyo Furugen)


 

September 3, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

September 2 was the final day of the 63rd Okinawa Zento Eisa Festival, which was held at Koza Athletic Park in Okinawa City.

Fourteen groups performed Eisa at the festival.

 

According to organizers, over the three days of the festival a record number of 34,000 people visited Okinawa City or the “City of Eisa.” On the final day groups from each region of Okinawa successively performed powerful traditional dance and presented creative theater performances.

These Eisa dance performances were skillful; the sounds of sanshin reverberated with the sound of the taiko drums, reminding spectators of summer in Okinawa.

Members of the Yamazato Youth Group of Okinawa City brought the festival to a close, as they did two years ago.

They charmed the audience from the beginning with their intense drumming, lively dancing, and movements in orderly lines.

Up to this point the most attended festival was the 56th Okinawa Zento Eisa Festival in 2011, to which 33,000 people came.

 

(English translation by T&CT and Erin Jones)

 

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