Kochi Yosakoi Festival Danced at the shopping street but canceled at Corona 16:27 on August 10

The Yosakoi festival, a summer tradition in Kochi, was canceled due to the new coronavirus, but the Yosakoi team in the shopping district performed a dance to get a feel for the festival atmosphere.

The Yosakoi Festival is the largest festival in Kochi prefecture where approximately 18,000 dancers from all over the country participate, and the production was scheduled to start on the 10th, but due to the new coronavirus, it was canceled for the first time since 1958. have become.

On the 10th, three Yosakoi teams in a shopping district in the center of Kochi performed a dance in the shopping district to let visitors feel the atmosphere of the festival even a little.

The visitors stopped and enjoyed the lively dance of the dancers in gorgeous costumes.

As a measure to prevent infection, the “Cooperative Obiyamachisuji” made by the shop owners of the shopping street that planned the event did not give advance notice to prevent people from gathering too much, and the dancer had a maximum of 16 people per team. That is, the mask was given to those who were on-site and did not have it.

A woman in her 50s returning from Osaka said, “I was lonely at the festival, but I was glad to see the powerful dance.”

In addition, Yoshihiro Soga of the youth club of the “Cooperative Obiyamachisuji” said, “Without Yosakoi, I was glad to perform the dance because Kochi's summer doesn't start or ends. I hope we can hold a festival next year. I was talking."