The Lantern Festival was held in Nagasaki City in conjunction with the Chinese New Year's Spring Festival. The final day was the 25th, during which a large number of people participated in the traditional Chinese performance of the ``Henmen Show,'' where the masks change one after another.
About 800 people visited and it was so crowded that admission was restricted. The mask artists wearing colorful costumes changed their masks one after one, and the visitors applauded their skillful techniques. About 1.21 million people visited during the festival, the largest number ever.