Mita-planting festival

Mita-planting festival

Event Overview

The Daiyama-jinjin worships Shintoku, who was taught to make rice to Kihana Kaiyahime. As an agricultural deity among a number of Shinto virtues, we pray for the five grain fertility, and on the day, three Shinkoshi units go to the Saita Matsuri-no-mikoshi temple. The jade seedlings, which were carefully raised to serve the subspecies festival, are offered along with the shrine, and the ceremony is solemnly performed. The priesthood alone is dedicated. Held annually on May 5, Lunar calendar.

Info

JR Fukuyama Station → Bus transfer 1 hour 12 minutes, bus stop: stop in front of Oyama Gion Shrine, 1 minute walk
15 minutes from Nishi-Seto-do Oshima IC via Prefectural Road No. 21

Event Period

Price

Free

Event Category

Agricultural Rites

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