Tian Tong Festival

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

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.

At a festival to celebrate the fertility of the five rice, about 40 bean wrestlers aged 0 to 6 years old parted to East and West to carry out their efforts, and they will be crowded with worshippers. Before the acquisition, the officer spreads out a scroll of the history of the accident and reads it out. All of them will end in a draw by convention. After the end, it will be taken over to the duty ward in the next fiscal year. A chrysanthemum exhibition is held on the approach to the approach to the public to entertain the eyes of the visitors. Works from many departments, tailored by members of the Kashima Chrysanthemum Makes Association, will be arranged. Image courtesy Kashima Shrine