[Two-day / Overnight] Get Your Fill from Ogi Variety Entertainment Hall to Ogi Port Matsuri!

Come to Ogi’s performance hall, known for its “Speaking Arts of Essa” that features vaudevillian and folk entertainers from Sado and beyond, including gozeuta (female shamisen player and singer), kodan story-telling, and rokyoku narrative singing, come experience the history and present of the speaking arts of Essa.Date

The Harbour Market is a marketplace where people naturally have the opportunity to mingle and exchange. For the first time this year the market will collaborate with the mobile outdoor art project Cinema Caravan, and have a new look. More details coming soon!

Ogi Minato Matsuri originated from the ritual to offer rice to Kisaki Shrine to pray for the safety of vessels when Ogi was a port to ship gold and silver. Many groups go around the streets from door to door performing ritual entertainment; Kojishimai (the deer dance); Ojishimai (the big lion dance); Ondeko (demon drumming); Shukunegi Chitochinton (a phallic dance); Uwano Daidaikagura (a type of traditional dance performance using props), and so on. The festival also features Ogi Okesa (a folk song and dance) and Yosakoi (another folk song and dance). Ogi Minato Matsuri is very well known for its firework display on the first day, that includes enormous fireworks.