Picori Festival

The is an event in.

Overview
It is an annual celebration which commemorates the coming of the TMC:, who helped drive evil away from the land by granting the TMC: the TMC: and the TMC:. The tale details that the TMC: show themselves every 100 years, when the TMC:, the link between their world and the world of men, opens, and only to children. Held in TMC:, the TMC: includes a sword-fighting tournament wherein the winner is allowed to touch the sacred TMC:. During, the TMC: is the one hundredth annual occurrence since the last time the TMC: showed themselves. TMC: wins the tournament and shatters the TMC:, causing the evil it had sealed away to return to plague TMC:. Previous winners of the tournament include each of the TMC: and the TMC:; the tournament's only recorded stalemate was between TMC: and TMC:, who participated back in their youth.

In the beginning of, TMC: attends the TMC: with TMC:. At the center of the TMC: lie four stands: TMC:'s vegetable stand, TMC:'s fruit stand, TMC:'s minigame stand, and a final stand where TMC:, a TMC: resident, tells of the TMC: legend. To the north of the TMC: stand two people from the TMC: (TMC: and TMC:), and a TMC: stands by the TMC:.

Shortly after completing TMC:, the TMC: will have already ended, and the town square returns to a normal marketplace.

Trivia

 * In the Japanese version of, the sword-fighting tournament is simply called a "". The term "martial arts" refers to a wide variety of armed and weaponless fighting styles around the world, including sword-fighting.