The story of the lantern puppets show called “Chapponpon” is held in Fukushima, Yame city, Fukuoka Prefecture during 3 consecutive holidays at the end of September.
This is based on a famous piece of Japanese history. There are 4 stories as below.
1.Tamamo-no-Mae
2.Yoshinoyama kitsune tadanobu hatsune-no-tsuzumi
3.Satsuma-hayato Kuniwakamaru Itsukushimajinja-moude
4.Harugeshiki Chikushigata Nashima-moude
This puppet show is performed based on the other story by every 4years as rotation.
We would like to show you each 4 stories on this homepage as posting.