Gunma Prefecture・Tamamura Town
Akumabarai (Fujikawa)
A protective event in Fujikawa, where children visit homes throughout the area with a lion head and calls
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Saitama Prefecture・Saitama City
Ichiyama Shrine Winter Solstice Festival
A winter-solstice tradition in Yono, entrusting wishes to fire-walking and yuzu
Saitama Prefecture・Misato City
Misato City’s Obisha
A festival at Ohhiroto that entrusts wishes for abundant harvests and good health to a rice-straw snake
Saitama Prefecture・Ageo City
The Doroinkyo Event of the Hirakata Gion Festival
A summer festival in Kamijuku, Hirakata, where a wooden mikoshi kicks up mud
Saitama Prefecture・Yashio City
Kisone no Yumi-buchi
A New Year event in Yashio, entrusting community prayers to bows, arrows, and song
Saitama Prefecture・Kazo City
Suwa Shrine Kamadokkae
Kamitakayanagi’s festival, where new sickles are passed on and hopes for a fruitful harvest are renewed
Saitama Prefecture・Yoshikawa City
Kibai Kumano Shrine Miya-nage
A New Year’s Miya-nage, with rice crackers thrown at one another, passed down in Kibai, Yoshikawa
Saitama Prefecture・Ogano Town
Izu-sawa Weather Divination
A traditional Izu-sawa event that reads the weather for the coming year from the arrows’ course
Saitama Prefecture・Ogano Town
Hashizume no Dorokujin-yaki
Wishes for protection from misfortune and good health in Kawarazawa, entrusted to the flames of New Year decorations