Nagasaki Kunchi

[1] From October 7–9 the presentations of the festival, which vividly reflect Nagasaki's colourful history, spill over from the three festival sites into the streets and create an atmosphere of celebration throughout the city.

[1] The festival originally began on the seventh day of the month and lasted through the ninth day, maintained today as Okunchi's start date of October 7 and end date of October 9.

[2] This is still evident today in the custom of garden showing (庭見せ, niwamise), when the presenting neighbourhoods open up their homes to public scrutiny.

One of the most famous performances of the festival is the Dragon Dance ( jaodori (龍踊り, dragon dance)), which was originally performed on New Year's Eve by the Chinese residents of Nagasaki.

The festival includes a number of other folk performing arts, including kujira no shiofuki (鯨の潮吹き, the blowing of the whale), kokkodesho (コッコデショ, drum dance), and Oranda manzai (阿蘭陀万才, Dutch dance).