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| A coming-of-age ceremony after Yoshitsune |
| In the beginning of March ●A coming-of-age ceremony in KAGAMI NO SATO |
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After MINAMOTO NO YOSHITUNE(a general in the Kamakura period),a coming-of-age
ceremony is performed every year in the beginning of March.
They parade the street from MICHI NO EKI RYUO KAGAMI NO
SATO to Kagami Shinto shrine in formal dress of the samurai class
Why don't you join us ?
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| 【Location】 Kagami Shinto shrine, Kagami, Ryuo Town |
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→Pictures of a coming-of-age ceremony in KAGAMI NO SATO |
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| Don't you enjoy walking in cherry blossoms at a village of IMOSE ? |
| From the end of March to the middle of April ● SAKURA festival |
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In this season, including SOMEIYOSHINO cherry and drooping cherry, about
700 cherry trees blossom all at once in IMOSE.
On Sunday, they play Taisho-koto, and you can have powdered green tea.
Cherry blossoms are lit up (until 21:00) for one week.
A late-blooming button cherry tree is wonderful, too. |
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| 【Location】 A village of IMOSE, Kawamori, Ryuo Town |
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| NAMURA shrine (national treasure) festival. It's full of ancient rites. |
| April 20th ● NAMURA shrine festival● NAMURA shrine festival |
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It is the festival that is full of ancient rites held on April 20 every
year.It begins with NANOKA MAIRI worship.
On 18th, the decoration is done, and there is horse ferry from nine groups
conducting the religious service.
Ten horses dedicated to the shrine and three portable shrines stand in
line after Shinto ritual on that day,
When a festival is over, a sword is handed to a manager of the next year
in each ward, and it is succeeded. |
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| 【Location】 NAMURA shrine, Ayado, Ryuo town |
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| A festival for boys burning a big torch in front of God. |
| From May 1st to 3rd ● Fire Festival |
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Boys from 15 years old to 25 years old in Yuge district burn a big torch
in front of God. It is performed for an eve of May 1.
In a climax of a festival, it is full of a large number of worship people
and skyrockets and set-piece fireworks are dedicated. |
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| 【Location】 Kohiyoshi Shinto shrine, Yuge, Ryuo Town |
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| Naginata Dance(Intangible folk cultural asset), it needs great skill. |
May 3rd ● KENKETO Festival
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INaginata Dance(Intangible folk cultural asset) is performed in Suginoki
Shinto Shrine every year on May 3.
The eldest son of each house wears colorful clothes, and the dance is dedicated.
It is said that the wears are made after Oda Nobunaga's fight at Minakuchi
area.The dance is called KENKETO DANCE. |
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| 【Location】 Suginiki Shinto Shrine, Ymanoue, Ryuo Town |
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| A festival of children, shooting iapanese archery from horseback. |
| May 5th ● Seasonal Festival |
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| It is performed every year on May 5 by nine groups conducting the religious
service. A horse dedicated to the shrine runs with the ancient rite appearance. |
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| 【Location】 NAMURA shrine, Ayado, Ryuo town |
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| Offering straw sandals for illness of a foot. |
| Saturday and Sunday at the end of June ● 1000 days festival /1000 days
meeting |
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there is a legend that the stone heals illness of a foot in Saikouji temple
ruins, Many worshipers offer a straw sandals at the time of 1000days meeting
in the end of June, A lot of peoples pray for recovery from illness.
1000 days festival is held at the night of the day before 1000days meeting.
There are many small lamps with a paper shade of an ukiyoe print. |
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| 【Location】 Ninnouji temple, Kagami, Ryuo town |
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→Pictures of 1000 days festival /1000 days meeting |
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| Dedicate it to rainy God "RYU-JIN". |
| July 10th ● Dance of praying for rain |
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IThis event has revived after 66years interval on July 10, 1999. One of
the eight dragon kings MANASHI-RYUUJINN who is called God of rain and water
is worshiped at Ryuo shrine.
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| 【Location】Kagamiyama（Ryuo shrine）, Kagami, Ryuo town |
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→>Pictures of Dance of praying for rain |
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| A festival only in a farm village. |
| In the middle of July ● A torch procession for praying for extermination
of noxious insects |
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| For an easy delivery of a pregnant woman, and avoiding misfortune. |
| July 31st ● Chinowa Kuguri |
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| An event to pray for an easy delivery of a pregnant woman. You make the
ring that a person stands, and can go with Kaya grass (Chigusa) and turn
around for four coming and going and a half while a boy of a young man
boy and a primary schoolchild pulls it. When people evade the ring after
starting a pregnant woman, it is informed that You avoid an evil. |
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| 【A place】 Anraku temple, Iwai, Ryuo town |
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| To be Japan's most interesting festival, all the inhabitants join. |
| The first Saturday in August ● Furusato Ryuo summer festival |
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| Everyone is a performer, all the inhabitants join this summer festival.
Refreshment stand, Ninja of Dragon,a bonfire, drums, a fireworks. Pleasure
increases year by year. We want to make it the Japan's most interesting
festival. |
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| 【Location】 A village of IMOSE, Kawamori, Ryuo Town |
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→Pictures of Furusato Ryuo summer festival |
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| Invocations and prayers with Sponge cucumber |
| August 15th of the lunar calendar ● Invocations and prayers with Sponge
cucumber |
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| It is performed every year on August 15th of the lunar calendar. We invocate
and pray with Sponge cucumber to cure asthma and a cough. There is a person
of much prayer from the whole country. In addition, local special product
City is performed at a door front. |
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| 【A place】 Ryuo temple, Kawamori, Ryuo town |
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| The romantic beautiful moon make us forget that the night grows. |
| On Sunday of the middle of September ● Moon-viewing and an evening of Manyo |
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| I listening to a sound of a koto and talking with a dish simmered in simple
potato while looking at the harvest moon and celebrate a good harvest of
one year. |
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| 【Location】 A village of IMOSE, Kawamori, Ryuo Town |
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→Pictures of Moon-viewing and an evening of Manyo |
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| An event from the old days we praised Yoshitsune Minamoto. |
| On a day of second USHI in December ● TOGARAI Festival |
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| In memory of Yoshitsune Minamoto who had the ceremony of manhood at an
inn of KAGAMI..It's a pleasant festival with the talk between a child and
an old man. We call this festival TOGARAI Festival . Because Children parade
round a village claping a bell and a drum, and growing it with "TOUGARAI,,
MAA GARAI, MAAGA ATTARA TOUGARAI" aloud. |
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| 【Location】 Kagami Shinto shrine, Kagami, Ryuo Town |
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→Pictures of TOGARAI Festival
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| A good harvest, martial arts progress, exorcism. |
| At the beginning of January ● First shooting ceremony |
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| We pray for a good harvest, martial arts progress, fortune in number of
arrows hitting the target equal to a mark. Two primary schoolchildren shoot
36 arrows. |
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| 【Location】 Ishibe Shrine, Shichiri, Ryuo-town |
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| In hope of a rich crop |
| On January 14th ● Fortune-telling with Rice porridge in Tanaka |
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| Put a bamboo tube in a big pot and cook rice, watch condition, and tell
a good harvest in the year. It was performed in old days in farm village
of any place, but gradually became outdated. However, We still keep this
event with Tanaka carefully and inherit it. |
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| 【Location】 Hachiman Shinto shrine, Tanaka, Ryuo town |
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→Pictures of Fortune-telling with Rice porridge in Tanaka |
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| Party of the fire which each village performs all at once. |
| January 14th ● SAGICHO Festival |
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| We hang a strip of paper on which we wrote a wish to bamboo grass with
a charm of a Shinto shrine, the calligraphy practice at the beginning of
the year, and burn all at once. |
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| 【Location】 Each village in Ryuo town |
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→A pictures of SAGICHO Festival |
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| Ryuo town, a birthplace of modern archery, has many acts of God with a
bow. |
| February 11th ● A last shooting ceremony |
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| We perform the event that is similar to the first shooting ceremony. A
primary schoolchild of an archer is covered with formal headwear for court
nobles and wears a kimono of a double cross crest collar, a white hakama
and a white tabi. |
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| 【Location】Ishibe Shinto shrine, Shichiri, Ryuo town |
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