Paantu
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thumb|right|240px|Exhibition of Paantu at Miyakojima City Museum, Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan The Paantu (Miyako: ) festival is an annual festival on the island of Miyako-jima in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.
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It is catalogued under topics including Festivals in Okinawa Prefecture, Japanese deities and Miyako culture.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Miyakojima
- Image
- Miyako paantou.jpg
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- intangible cultural heritage status
- intangible cultural heritage
- native label
- パーントゥ
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thumb|right|240px|Exhibition of Paantu at Miyakojima City Museum, Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan The Paantu (Miyako: ) festival is an annual festival on the island of Miyako-jima in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.
Every year during the ninth month of the lunisolar calendar, male villagers will dress up as paantu, supernatural beings meant to spread good luck and scare away evil spirits. The common feature is a wooden mask with a large forehead, small eyes, and a thin mouth, and the spreading of sacred mud onto newly built houses or onto newborn children's faces. In some villages, the Paantu are accompanied by traditional animist noro priestesses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paantu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.