Yokosuka’s Tiger Dance
A theatrical tradition alive in Yokosuka, featuring Wato-nai and the tiger
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A theatrical tradition alive in Yokosuka, featuring Wato-nai and the tiger
A Ninomiya ritual of passing through the chinowa to cleanse away six months of impurities
Ninomiya’s traditions of welcoming the ancestors through sand mounds and Bon Odori
The August reisai handed down at Hachiman Shrine in Sanda, Atsugi City
Visit the Sanno-san annual festival, celebrated in Sekiguchi, Atsugi City
The Kotaijinja Shrine Annual Festival, passed down at Tanazawa’s guardian shrine
Fukuda Jinja’s annual festival, enlivened by hayashi shishimai said to date back to the late Edo period
The Nishikoiso Tanabata Event, where local hopes are entrusted to a bamboo mikoshi
The mikoshi’s departure from and return to Shirahige Shrine in Kobune, carried on through generations