murmurRokugo Kamakura
Misato Town · Rokugo district, Misato (bamboo battle at the Kamakura field)
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Misato Town · Last checked: Oct 10, 2026
Dates
Dates confirmed with official sources
- 2026
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- 2027
- Feb 9–13, 2027 Bamboo battle from 8:00 pm on the final day
- Usual timing
- Usually mid February
- How the date is set
- Changes from year to year Five days in mid-February each year
- Venue
- Rokugo district, Misato (bamboo battle at the Kamakura field)
- City
- Misato Town, Akita
About
Held over five days each February in the Rokugo district of Misato, this Little New Year festival is a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. It opens with the ceremonial opening of storehouses and the first tenpitsu calligraphy, and ends on the final night with the bamboo battle and the burning of the tenpitsu. It preserves traces of the New Year fire rite once held at the Kyoto Imperial Palace, said to have been brought to Rokugo in the Kamakura period by the Nikaido clan, and has long been a fire festival praying for a good harvest. In the highlight, the bamboo battle, residents split into a north and a south army and clash with bamboo poles. Few Little New Year rites survive in such original form.
Sources
- OfficialMisato Town www.town.misato.akita.jp
- OfficialMisato Town www.town.misato.akita.jp
- Reference六郷のカマクラ（美郷町） 稲作占う、締めの「竹うち」 ２０２６県南冬まつりガイド｜秋田魁新報電子版 www.sakigake.jp
Last checked: Oct 10, 2026. Event information is based on official announcements, but changes may not always be reflected here. Please check each official website for accurate details.
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