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Namikiri’s traditional event of pulling a giant straw sandal and praying for safe voyages
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Namikiri’s traditional event of pulling a giant straw sandal and praying for safe voyages
An autumn festival in Tainai, where flower floats and dashi dance to festival music
Male and female Shoki-sama protecting the settlement, and their cedar-leaf change of clothes
A folk event in Ichinomiya where a grass horse travels through the community, carrying wishes to the river
A festival where kiyari songs and 5 floats race through the town of Senami
Uma Nebuta floats move through Tsugaru as prayers rise with the flames of summer
Six dashi thunder through the castle town in a summer festival passed down through generations
A summer festival where illuminated Nebuta floats and mikoshi brighten the streets of Tsukuba
Ojiya’s summer festival, brought to life by mechanized Mando floats and fireworks funded by local residents