Performance of “Golden Dragon Dance”

2023/3/18 Saturday
1st departure Kaminarimon 11am
Service: diagonally in front of the main hall of Sensoji Temple, 11:30am

2nd departure: Denpoin (on the way to Nakamise) 13:30 minutes
Service: diagonally in front of the main hall of Sensoji Temple, 14:00

3rd departure: Denpoin (on the way to Nakamise) 15:00 minutes
Service Diagonally in front of the main hall of Sensoji Temple 15:30

The Golden Dragon Dance was directed by Yoshio Yoshikawa, the composer Yoshiaki Machida, and the dance choreographer Tomoaki Fujima under the guidance of the late Mantaro Kubota, and more than 70 volunteers from the youth groups from each local town took part in the dance and devoted their souls to it. I will give a performance.It has already become a famous event.

The auspicious origin of Sensoji Temple's mountain name, Kinryuzan, is ``On the 18th, about a thousand pine trees arose overnight at the temple, and after three days, a golden-scaled dragon, about 100 feet long, descended from the sky into the pine trees. But after that, he saw a certain place and called it Mt. Kinryu.

The Kinryu no Mai originates from this, and was created and dedicated by the Asakusa Kannon Ceremony when the Showa Main Hall was dedicated in October 1955 as a commemorative event to be handed down to future generations.
The 15m-long, 80kg-weight Kinryu is said to delight in the appearance of Kannon, and its brave and splendid dance is said to have great religious significance.The Kinryu's dance will be performed at the main image of the principal image on March 18th. It is held on October 18th, the day of chrysanthemum memorial service.

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