A Parade of Beautifully Adorned Horses in the Japanese Countryside

Chagu Chagu Umakko (チャグチャグ馬コ) is a horse festival in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It occurs on the second Saturday in June every year. About one hundred horses with colourful fittings and bells parade between Sozen Shrine in Takizawa and Morioka Hachiman-gū. The term chagu-chagu comes from the sound made by the horses’ bells. In 1978 the government o Japan recorded the festival was as an Intangible Folk Cultural Property. In 1996 the Ministry of the Environment selected the sound of the bells of the Chagu Chagu Umakko as one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan.

References

In English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagu_Chagu_Umakko

https://visitiwate.com/article/4759

https://www.japan.travel/en/spot/494/

In Japanese

http://www.city.morioka.iwate.jp/kankou/kankou/umako/index.html/

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