Niino Bon Odori
A summer night in Niino, sending off the spirits through song and circle dances
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A summer night in Niino, sending off the spirits through song and circle dances
A dengaku festival where snow is seen as a sign of a good harvest and masked deities dance through the night
An Ina Valley folk observance that sends misfortune away with sasa bamboo and Buddhist invocations
An old-style Chikuma festival featuring offerings of rice cakes made from newly harvested grain and a procession of to-nin
A traditional Ina event featuring Tanabata bamboo poles and a mikoshi crossing the Mibu River
A horseback procession through Suwagata and the pulling of a large Onbashira
A children’s Dosojin festival walking alongside life-size straw horses
An Inari festival where the Fox Wedding procession makes its way up the Aoyagi slope
A traditional event in which a large boat carries misfortune through Minamiogawachi