Kanagawa Prefecture・Kawasaki City
Eve of Hatsu-U-sai (making the straw serpent shimenawa)
Kawasaki’s Hatsu-U-sai: praying for a bountiful harvest with a straw serpent
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Toyama Prefecture・Kurobe City
Nakajin no Nibu-nagashi
A summer event in Kurobe, where wishes are entrusted to wheat-straw boats and sent down the Maekawa River
Fukui Prefecture・Katsuyama City
Kannon-sama’s Recommendation
A porridge ritual for safe childbirth and abundant harvests: gathering, pounding, and serving rice
Nagano Prefecture・Saku City
Kasuga Hongo District Dosojin Festival
Kasuga Hongo's Dosojin Festival, with lantern-lit mikoshi traveling through the winter night
Nagano Prefecture・Azumino City
The Dosojin Festival of Misato
A Dosojin and stage festival in Misato, carried on by children
Nagano Prefecture・Matsumoto City
The Onbashira Festival at Iriyama-be Daiwago Shrine
Iriyama-be's Onbashira Festival: shaping the wood and welcoming sacred trees
Nagano Prefecture・Matsumoto City
The Sending Away of the God of Poverty and the God of Colds in Iriyamabe Narao
Narao’s event, in which a straw horse is pulled and entrusted to the flames to send away the plague god
Nagano Prefecture・Minowa Town
Minamiogawachi no Osanyari
A traditional event in which a large boat carries misfortune through Minamiogawachi
Nagano Prefecture・Nagano City
Saikawa Shrine’s Mori Enka
Fireworks offerings in Amori, where skills passed down from Edo adorn the sacred grove