Daruma City, Shaolin Mountain Seven Grass Festival

Event Overview

It was founded by the efforts of Mitsukuni Mito as a prayer temple to protect the back-to-back gate of Maebashi Castle, with the name of Guanyan Bodhisattva, Tatsuma Daishi, and Hokushin-jin. A traditional event of the New Year's Nanakusa, which strictly repairs the Star Festival prayer that lasts for 320 years ago. At 2:00 on the 7th, it is the good day of the Reichsongkunin, and it is crowded with many worshippers as a green day from the eve of the 6th. A wooden mold was carved based on the "Ichisaku Tatsuma" drawn by the ninth-generation priest Kazunori Higashi, who was distributing it to nearby houses as a bill excluding the peasants to save the peasants from the famine of Tenmei, and taught how to make papier-mâché daruma, it began to be sold as a lucky charm. Dharma shops and eateries are lined up. Image courtesy of Shaolin Shorinshan Tatsumaji Temple

Info

Event Location:

Shaolin Shōnin Temple

Address:

296, Nasataka-cho, Takasaki, Gunma

Public Transportation:

JR Gunma-Hachiman Station → 18-minute walk

Car Access:

10km 25 minutes from Kanetsu-do Takasaki IC via Prefectural Road No. 27, National Route 18; or 25 minutes from Joshinetsu-do Fujioka IC via National Route 17 and 18

Phone Number:

027-322-8800 (Shaolin Mountain Taturuma Temple)

Parking Number:

300 units/free

Event Period

January 6, 2026 (Tuesday) - January 7, 2026 (Wednesday)

*All night on January 6 (Tuesday)

Price

Free

Event Category

City, fair

Seven Grass Festival Daruma Opened
Shaolin Shōnin Temple

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