Kattakata Festival
A summer festival where people dance through the streets to Suzaka Kouta
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A summer festival where people dance through the streets to Suzaka Kouta
Miyada’s summer festival, brought to life by mikoshi processions through town and their destruction at night
A procession of banners and traditional performing arts through the hot spring town, honoring the prayers on Mount Ojin
A mountain kagura in Agematsu, featuring dances passed down from father to eldest son
An Okochi spring festival expressing hopes for a good harvest through a straw deer and hunting gestures
A nenbutsu dance passed down in Saku, led by the sound of drums and bells
A community-created celebration of snow that brightens the snow country of Iiyama
Prayers for Little New Year in Nozawa Onsen, bound together by a sacred tree and flames
A ritual held once every 7 years, in which giant trees are hauled by people and erected at Suwa’s shrines