No.326 Monthly Yaima September 2021 issue

Special feature: "The Land God Festival: A Place of Worship That Continues to Change"

Matsuda Yoshitaka has been covering the Land Lord Festival, which is held every year on August 15th of the lunar calendar, where Taiwanese residents gather here on Ishigaki Island, for many years.

The Tudigong Festival is an event to worship the Taiwanese god, the Tudigong.

This festival, which began in the mid-1930s and has been going for over 80 years, has gradually become a hybrid, incorporating Ishigaki Island culture. Let's take a look at the foreign culture that has taken root on the island.