Also many of the natsumatsuri festivals tend to have originated in the events observed in rural communities to relieve farmers' fatigue from their agricultural work in the summer season, or originated in the events observed in urban communities to hold memorial services for the people who died from epidemic in summer before the Edo Period.
また、農村社会では夏季の農事による労働の疲れに関わる行事、都市社会では江戸時代以前の夏季の疫病の死者を弔う行事を起源とするものが多い傾向にある。