Minamata Konjyaku

Parade in a festival of Asahi-machi

Date
Aug. 31, 1962
Sept. 22, 2014
Address
2-2-1 Asahi-machi, Minamata
  • 昔
  • 今
  • A brass band parading in front of a Japanese clog shop. The road is full of young and old spectators.
  • The street where the clog shop used to be located. Brass bands no longer parades around this area.
Reference sources
  • The Edo Period:
    The Picture Map of Ashikita-gun, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, the late Edo Period.
  • The Meiji Period:
    The Japanese National Atlas at the end of Edo Period and in the Meiji Period, Kashiwa Shobo, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, 1983.