This dance uses the Bo, or fighting staff, and is performed as a group dance. It has been conveyed as a folk performance art amongst the many regions of Okinawa since ancient times. There are about twenty kinds of Maeda Bo Dances including solo, duo and group dances. These are performed on the 15th day of the 8th month of the old lunar calendar. In the Uchima area dances the 3 shaku ( 0.9 meter) and the 6 shaku (1.8 meter) Bo are used and are referred to as "battlesticks". There are solo and group dances, and they are performed together with the Shisamai Lion Dances on the 15th day of the 8th month of the old lunar calendar.