The Awa Odori was first danced some 400 years ago by the people of Tokushima on Shikoku Island, who would celebrate by dancing it after observing the "ghost festival" on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month.
阿波舞本來是四國德島地方中元祭祖之後，群眾一起跳的舞，約有四百年的歷史。