The festival was regarded as the most important event in the village, because the event in which men showed their naked body to the patriarch and women in the village turned into a meeting place for men looking for their future wives and for the parents of young women looking for irimuko (man who is adopted as the husband for a daughter).
裸祭を通じて、男性は裸体を村の長老や女性に披露することで、結婚相手となる嫁や自家への入婿を探す男女の出会いの場として、裸祭は村の行事では最重要の位置付けとされていた。