HOTEI TAI

Age unknown. This has been repaired several times, but it retains its original design. Historians consider this float one of the best surviving examples of the earliest floats. The HOTEI TAI has fescinating marionette play with complicated tricks, in which child dolls jump about one of the Seven Lucky Gods.

Pictures:Festival floats of Takayama festival published by Hida takayama tourism association

Hoteitai Karakuri

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