Chigo are children who participate in Buddhist processions.  From the Kamakura period on, well-to-do families sent their children to temples for their education.  In major celebrations, the children being educated at the temple participate in ceremonial processions and major celebrations.  They were dressed to represent heavenly beings.  The children wore Kariginu, a robe with long, wide sleeves which is worn over a Hakama, a culotte-like skirt.  This is the hunting costume of the Heian nobility which later became an official costume of the government.  Boys wear a stiff hat of lacquered gauze called the Eboshi.  Girls wear a crown with a Phoenix Bird and bright metal pendants called Tenkan.  Both boys and girls wear the ancient make-up of the nobility called Kugemayu which consist of two black dots just above the space between the eye-brows and carry artificial lotus leaves as a symbol of purity.