2026Night Parade of a Thousand Demons
- Venue
- Tsumagoi Bokujo, Tsumagoi, Gunma
- Dates
- October 8, 12:00 through October 12, 18:00. Builders' Week was October 3–7
Burning Japan 2026 ran 8–12 October at Tsumagoi Bokujo. Our 13th burn took its theme from the Night Parade of a Thousand Demons, and around 750 people built the city together. By 16 October there were no serious incident reports, and no fire or noise complaints. Next we meet 7–11 October 2027, on the same ranch.
Hyakki Yagyo, the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, is the old story of yokai, spirits, demons, and tsukumogami, household objects that come alive after long use, marching through the streets on certain nights. People stayed inside, because to see the parade was said to bring death or a curse. Painters have returned to it since the Muromachi period, most famously in the Hyakki Yagyo Emaki scrolls, and Burning Japan 2026 pushed the hundred to a thousand, Senki Yagyo.