In some areas from the Kanto region to the Kinki region, the Bon festival dance is also called ' higan odori' (the dance of autumnal equinoctial week), which is named after the season in which the festival is held. Each local community has a folk song for a dance, as well as its own dance style. Recently, callers and hayashikata (people performing the accompaniment with traditional Japanese instruments) have decreased in number, so in many cases the playback of a folk song for a dance recorded beforehand serves as a substitute. Occasionally, instead of a shamisen, an electric bass or a rhythm box is used as an instrument. In some areas, the folk song for the dance is performed with a live drum, a live shamisen (three-string Japanese banjo) and a live caller, just as it was in the past. In most cases, a folk song for the dance is used as the accompaniment in the Bon festival dance. The dance was once an all-night event, but nowadays it is rarely held through to the late-night hours. The Bon festival dance is one of the major events during the summer vacation period. In haiku, or Japanese seventeen-syllable poetry, the Bon festival dance is used as kigo (a seasonal word) of summer. The Bon festival dance is said to have originated from nenbutsu-odori (a dance with an invocation to the Buddha). The general style of the Bon festival dance is that a tower is set up at the center of an open space a caller atop the tower sings a folk song for a dance, and participants dance to the song as they circle the tower. The Bon festival dance is an event enjoyed in groups at night during the season of Bon, the Buddhist festival for the dead held around the fifteenth of August (or July in some regions).
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