murmurTanigumi Odori (Harvest Prayer Festival)
Ibigawa Town · Former Meitetsu Tanigumi Station, Tanigumi temple-town parking area and the Nio Gate of Tanigumisan Kegonji Temple
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Gifu Travel Guide (Gifu Prefecture Tourism Federation) · Last checked: Oct 11, 2026
Dates
Dates not confirmed
- 2026
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- 2027
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- Usual timing
- Usually mid February
- How the date is set
- Every year on February 18
- Venue
- Former Meitetsu Tanigumi Station, Tanigumi temple-town parking area and the Nio Gate of Tanigumisan Kegonji Temple
- City
- Ibigawa Town, Gifu
About
Each year the temple town of Tanigumisan Kegonji in Ibigawa holds its Harvest Prayer Festival, and this dance is the offering at its center, welcoming spring and asking for a good year's crops. It belongs to the family of drum dances found in villages along the upper Ibi River. Dancers in matching costumes wear a large fan of bamboo work called a shinai on their backs, modeled on phoenix feathers, and beat drums held at their chests. Said to go back more than 800 years, it was a rain dance for farmers in the Edo period and is now danced for a good harvest. It is performed 3 times through the day, moving from the former Meitetsu Tanigumi Station to the temple-town parking area and on to the Nio Gate, so you can follow it along.
Sources
- OfficialGifu Travel Guide (Gifu Prefecture Tourism Federation) www.kankou-gifu.jp
Last checked: Oct 11, 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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