One chigo appears in each Shinkosai and Kankosai; both chigo wear the same costume, and chigo tenkan (crown for child of festivity) with a woodcrafted pendant of a horse's head, or an object of worship housed in the Kuninaka-jinja Shrine, rides on a horse to lead the Nakagoza mikoshi which enshrines nigimitama (spirits of peace) of Susanoo no Mikoto (a deity of Japanese Mythology).
神幸祭・還幸祭では１名ずつ登場、衣装は同じだが稚児天冠を被り、胸に国中神社の御神体である木彫りの馬の首（駒形）を胸に掛け、馬に乗って素戔嗚尊（すさのおのみこと）の和御魂（にぎみたま）が鎮まる中御座神輿（なかござみこし）の先導を務める。