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The 11th Sakado Nisai Cherry Blossom Festival

Under the cherry tree line of early-blooming angyaukan zakura, the "Sakado Nisai Cherry Blossom Festival" is held in conjunction with the flowering period of the cherry blossoms. At the "11th Sakado Nisai Cherry Blossom Festival", events such as opening ceremonies, performances such as traditional performing arts and Yosakoi, various stores, and a large collection of characters in nearby municipalities will be held.

Ogose Bairin Plum Festival

The Ogose Bairin is one of the three largest bairwoods in Kanto, and about 1000 plum trees are planted in the garden, including the old tree "Kaiyuki", which is over 670 years old. Image courtesy: Ogose-cho

Shimodano Lighting Festival

Lights light on more than 300 lanterns in Shimodano, Minano-cho. When the lights are lit on the road and the tanbo, it is one picturesque landscape that shines in the mountains. Caricatures and children's paintings are drawn on the lantern. 17 to 20 o'clock (subject to change). The origin of the festival is that in the year of the Tensho era, when peace returned after the end of the battle of the Potted Battle, villagers began to serve with a hundred-eight-lined lantern to comfort the spirits of samurai and peasants at Seifuku-ji Temple. * It may be canceled due to circumstances.

Plum Festival of Haruna

Enjoy the spring in Haruna Bairin, which boasts 120,000 bottles and the largest scale in East Japan. You can watch, eat, and play in Haruna in early spring.

Mita Uejin

A spring festival to pray for the bounty of the five grains; 11:00 ~ a field-making work by Tashu and others, followed by a field-planting dance by Yaotome along with songs and musical instruments by Kagura Noto.

Porridge Festival (Okayu-san)

"Oogyudameshi" is a ritual of porridge fortune-telling that it has been performed since the Chiguri Hachiman-miya. February 26 Porridge cooked in the secret method of the shaike tradition is placed in a gold bowl of the sacred treasure, and the chopsticks are handed over to the east-west north-south ten characters, divided into four countries: Chikuzen, Chikugo, Hizen, and Higo, which are then stored in the temple and opened to the public early morning on March 15. Seen the changes of mold that came to the surface of the porridge, divining the weather and the doneness of the crops during the year, earthquakes, large winds, fires, epidemic diseases, etc.

Higashiji-ji Nigetsudo Shujikai

It reportedly began in the fourth year of Tianping Shengbao (752), and has continued without interruption since. At around 1:30 am on the 13th, a ritual "water-picking" is held to pump "perfume [kozui]" to be offered to the eleven-faced Kansei Onbodhisattva. Every night, a large torch that leads this crowd to the hall goes around the stage of Nigetsu-do. It is said that a year can be safely spent by taking this fire. * About torches, please confirm in advance. Image courtesy Nara City Tourism Association

Good Year Festival

Five rice bounts, the god of raising all things, and the god of the cultivation of all things, and Tamahime, the god of the child treasure, are enshrined at the Tasha Shrine. The "Fengen Festival" is a traditional ritual that has been around for a long time, and every year, the big men, who are newly made, are held in Mikoshi by the evil men to carry them at the shrine.

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