Kagoshima Prefecture・Minamitane Town
The parlor dance of Minamitane, Tanegashima
Songs and improvised dance alive in Minamitane’s celebratory parlors
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Fukushima Prefecture・Iwaki City
Yabusame and food offerings at Iino Hachimangu Shrine
Iino Hachimangu Shrine’s autumn festival, with galloping horses and traditional food offerings
Ibaraki Prefecture・Tsuchiura City
Hie Shrine Yabusame Festival
A bold yabusame festival in Yamanosho, carrying on the legend of the giant monkey’s defeat
Kanagawa Prefecture・Yokohama City
Honchi (spider fighting)
A serious contest between tiny spiders, passed down in Yokohama
Kanagawa Prefecture・Sagamihara City
Kokomori Inari Festival
An Inari festival in Sagami-Ono, where prayers for sericulture were entrusted to ema
Nagano Prefecture・Nagiso Town
Tadachi Hanaba Festival
A Tadachi festival where flower-adorned Kiso horses walk on, carrying prayers for a good harvest
Nagano Prefecture・Miyota Town
Odai Dosojin Festival
A children’s Dosojin festival walking alongside life-size straw horses
Shizuoka Prefecture・Kosai City
Ninomiya Shrine Grand Festival Yabusame Ritual
A Sengoku-era yabusame ritual with purification in Lake Hamana
Mie Prefecture・Kuwana City
Tado Taisha Shrine Ageuma Ritual
A harvest-prayer ritual with horses and riders galloping up Tado’s slope