In the traditional manzai in Okinawa, manjai-koshi (strolling comic dancer) in the Shuri suburb of Aniya hamlet seems to have stood by the gate of each house, given celebration words and made dolls dance at the beginning of the year, but in the Taisho period they were not seen in Nakijin and so on, and only the word manjai-koshi remains.
本来の沖縄の萬歳は、首里郊外の安仁屋部落にいた萬歳行者（まんぢゃいこーしー）が年のはじめに各家々の門に立ちよって祝言をとなえ人形を舞わせていたようであるが、大正時代には今帰仁などではすでに見受けられず、萬歳行者という言葉だけが伝えられていた。