Log-Rolling Performance (Kiba No Kakunori) 木場の角乗

Name: Log-Rolling Performance (Kiba No Kakunori)
Start: 2025-10-19

4 Kiba, Koto City, Tokyo

2025-10-19

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Eastern Tokyo

Kiyosumi Shirakawa

The Kiba area derives its name from the former timber wholesalers’ lumberyards that used be here (Kiba Park). (Kiba literally means "lumberyard.")
Kiba no kakunori, or square log rolling, developed as a folk art, deriving from the process of timber raft professionals’ skill in maneuvering the wood using just a single pike pole.*
Each year, as part of its residents' festival, Koto-ku holds the “Koto-ku Folk Performing Arts Festival” in Kiba Park, to keep up the traditions of local folk art during which the public can view the “Kiba no kakunori.”
Why not visit the venue on the day to watch raftsmen roll and ride the square logs floating in the water?

*Pike pole: a bamboo pole with a hook, used to pull wooden logs.

How to Get There

Kiba Station | 5 min on foot
Tozai Line

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