Natsugoshi ceremony

The festival is the most important festival of the Kashima Shrine's Spring Festival, a festival that marks the spring and wishes for Tentai Taihei and a good harvest. Each one is chosen as the left and right from the 52 characters in the north-south-jiko district centered on the Kashima Shrine, and a festival committee is set up to prepare for it in a year. The festival festival, the festival festival, is the Kashima standing shrine at the very beginning of spring, wishing for Taihei Tenka and a good harvest of five. Image courtesy Kashima Shrine

A celebration to celebrate the birthday of the Emperor, and pray for longevity and national security.

New Year's rituals that continue from the Kamakura period some 800 years ago. At the beginning of the year, it is a festival where the shrine horse was pulled around in line with the opening door of the first main shrine, and it is reported that the evil of the year will be paid if you see the white horse. In recent years, it has been said that a wish will come true when a goshimma (Goshimme) has stepped on it, and worshipers who lay handkerchiefs and towels on the ground put their wishes on the footprints of several passing goshimas.