Competing with Tokushima's Awa odori is the Yosakoi Festival, which began in Kochi Prefecture, also located on the island of Shikoku. The festival began in 1954 after the creation of the official Yosakoi Naruko Dance, which is based on a folk song called "Yosakoi Bushi (Melody)." This is accompanied by dancing to the up-tempo beat of the chant "Yochoreyo, yochoreyo" while carrying a pair of naruko, a kind of clappers that make a click-clack sound. In the past, people in Kochi used these naruko to scare sparrows away from their farm fields.