Nagoya-City

Toda Festival

The Toda Festival is a festival held jointly by the five villages from Ichinowari, the first, to Gonowari, the fifth, each individually enshrining a deity. The beginning of Toda Festival is said to have been in 1702. From 1796, floats with a variety of karakuri puppe...

Nagoya-City

Tobe Tenno Festival

At Tobe-jinja Shrine, there were two Danjiri floats paraded. Until the Edo period, the festival was held on June 11th and 12th of the lunar calendar. 　Floats were once also pulled at Minami Shingu-sha Shrine and Nagoya-jinja Shrine. Two Danjiri floats were pulled ...

Nagoya-City

Hoshimiya Festival(Honji Festival)

It is said that the Hoshimiya-sha Shrine was founded during the period of Emperor Jomei (from 629 to 641), and was transferred to this land when Hoshizaki Castle was constructed. It used to be located at the southernmost tip of the Hoshizaki plateau facing the sea, a...

Nagoya-City

Arimatsu Festival

　In the autumn festival of Arimatsu Tenman-sha Shrine, presently held on the 1st Sunday of October, three floats are pulled. Because Arimatsu was originally developed as a part of Okehazama Village (Midori Ward, Nagoya City), the tutelary shrine used to be Shinmei-s...

Nagoya-City

Narumi Festival (Urakata)

　The Narumi Festival was originally held as a single festival across the entire Narumi region, but later came to be held separately by the Narumi-jinja Shrine (Urakata) and Narumi Hachimangu Shrine (Omotekata). The Urakata Float Festival consists of floats from four...

Inuyama-City

Oagata-jinja Shrine Annual Festival (Oagata-jinja Shrine Annual Grand Festival Chigoyama Hono)

The Annual Grand Festival is held on the 10th, and the Chigoyama Float Dedication is held on Sunday and Saturday around the 10th. The Chigoyama float passed down in Ninomiya-cho was built in 1816, and has a long history of some 197 years. The local people have wo...

Yatomi-City

Yatomi-jinja Shrine Grand Festival

An autumn festival held at Yatomi-jinja Shrine. Ishidorisha floats from the three districts of Nakaroku, Kojima-Yayoidai, and Mae-Shinden; and Kagurayakata floats from Uenowari, Nakanowari, Shitanowari , Ebie, Kuruma-Shinden, Higashi-Yayoidai, and Kamakura among othe...

Yatomi-City

Yoshihira-jinja Shrine Grand Festival

An autumn festival held at the Shinmei-sha Shrine in Yoshihira. This is a very lively festival, in which floats are pulled to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Maegahira Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Maegahira Shinmei-sha Shrine. This is a very lively festival, in which floats are pulled to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Akiba-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Higashinakaji Akiba-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Akiba-sha Shrine in Higashinakaji. This is a very lively festival, in which floats parade to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Gomyo Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Shinmei-sha Shrine in Gomyo. This is a very lively festival, in which floats parade to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Susanoo Grand Festival (Maegasu Susanoo-sha Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Susanoo-sha Shrine in Maegasu-cho. This is a very lively festival, in which floats are pulled to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Tsushima-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Nakayama Tsushima-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Tsushima-sha Shrine in Nakayama. This is a very lively festival, in which floats parade to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Otani Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Otani Shinmei-sha Shrine. This is a very lively festival, in which floats parade to the sound of gongs and drums.

Toyota-City

Yashiro-cho Hachimangu Shrine Annual Grand Festival

With regard to the float dedicated at the Yashiro-cho Hachimangu Shrine Annual Grand Festival, preserved documents show that it was purchased from Iname Village in Yahagi Town, Hekikai County for 600 yen in 1909. The float has two tiers with side wheels, a front sh...

Toyota-City

Hirai Hachimangu Shrine Festival

In the Shigaku Festival, the floats are decorated with lanterns with lit candles and festival music is played, and a Shinto ritual of praying at the shrine seven times is performed. In the Hongaku Festival, Hirai-cho's float goes to Dodo-cho and meets the float of ...

Toyota-City

Asuke Hachimangu Shrine Annual Festival

【A dynamic and fantastical traditional festival 】 The Asuke Hachimangu Shrine Festival, also called the Asuke Festival, is comprised of the Shigaku Festival and Hongaku Festival. It is said that the festival has been celebrated in this style since around the la...

Toyota-City

Autumn Annual Grand Festival (Niiname Festival)

In the Niiname Festival, the float decorated with lanterns and curtains goes up the steep hill from the Torii gates to the front shrine for dedication.

Toyohashi-City

Maeshiba Shinmei-sha Shrine Annual Grand Festival

The float pulled around town during the Annual Grand Festival was donated by Torao Hayashi, the president of Nihon Denso at that time, in September 1961.

Gamagori-City

Susanoo-jinja Shrine Autumn Festival

【The Susanoo-jinja Shrine Autumn Festival, deeply rooted in local traditions】 (1) About the float parade, a festival event (Description) Yakatabune (roofed pleasure boat) with wheels parades around the town. Depending on the district, the men run up the steps and...

Gamagori-City

Mitake-jinja Shrine Annual Festival (Autumn Season Annual Festival Dedication Float Pulling by three districts)

Floats for adults and for children are dedicated on the 2nd Saturday and Sunday of October. (Briefing for float parade participants, cleaning and inspection of the boat, making flowers, producing the rice cake box. Singing rehearsals, decoration.) (1) About the f...

Gamagori-City

Omiya-jinja Shrine Annual Grand Festival

(Origin, etc.) According to documents regarding the origin of the Omiya-jinja Shrine, Nyakuichioji of Kumano Sansha Daigongen was transferred from Shimoichinogo in Mt. Nachi of Kishu by Kikuhime, the daughter of Lord Fujiwara no Toshinari, who is said to have develop...

Gamagori-City

Yaotomi-jinja Shrine Annual Grand Festival

(Origin, etc.) The festival started in the end of the Edo period and increased in scale from the early Meiji period. It is said that the lord of the Matsudaira clan of Gamagori visited the shrine with his retainers when the annual festival was held during the Edo per...

Shinshiro-City

Sekiza-jinja Shrine Annual Festival

The highlight of this festival is the Sasa dance in the parade. The dance is performed by lower-year elementary school students dressed as sparrows who dance around freely from left to right to the drumming of the festival music.

Tahara-City

Akiba-jinja Shrine & Hatake-jinja Shrine Grand Festival

The spirit of the deity of the Akiba-jinja Shrine, the tutelary shrine of the Konosu Beach facing Fukue Bay, is carried on the portable shrine to the Otabisho (the place where the portable shrine lodges during a festival) in the grounds of Hatake-jinja Shrine, where...

Toei-Town

Autumn Grand Festival Eve Festival

The festival is held at the Suwa Nangu-jinja Shrine on the 1st Saturday and Sunday of October every year. In addition to the float parade, skyrocket fireworks and hand held fireworks liven up the atmosphere.

Nagoya-City

Hira Festival

Hira, Nishi Ward, Nagoya City is located in the most northwestern part of the city, and used to be divided into north and south parts by the Shinbori Canal that flowed from east to west in between. The north part of Hira was called Kahoku and the south was called Kan...

Nagoya-City

Hanaguruma Shinmei-sha Shrine Festival

Hiroi Village existed before the city was transferred from Kiyosu to Nagoya. As a result, along with the two Danjiri floats of the Sannomaru Tenno Festival (the current Nagoya-jinja Shrine Festival), Mimaiguruma, small Nagoya-style floats for the purpose of dedicatin...

Nagoya-City

Narumi Festival (Omitekata)

　The Narumi Omotekata Festival (Midori Ward, Nagoya City) is held as the festival of Narumi Hachimangu Shrine. It is uncertain when the Narumi Hachimangu Shrine started holding their own festival, but rituals such as the Yudate Shinto ritual were held at the beginni...

Nagoya-City

Narumi Festival (Urakata)

　The Narumi Festival was originally held as a single festival across the entire Narumi region, but later came to be held separately by the Narumi-jinja Shrine (Urakata) and Narumi Hachimangu Shrine (Omotekata). The Urakata Float Festival consists of floats from four...

Yatomi-City

Yatomi-jinja Shrine Grand Festival

An autumn festival held at Yatomi-jinja Shrine. Ishidorisha floats from the three districts of Nakaroku, Kojima-Yayoidai, and Mae-Shinden; and Kagurayakata floats from Uenowari, Nakanowari, Shitanowari , Ebie, Kuruma-Shinden, Higashi-Yayoidai, and Kamakura among othe...

Yatomi-City

Yoshihira-jinja Shrine Grand Festival

An autumn festival held at the Shinmei-sha Shrine in Yoshihira. This is a very lively festival, in which floats are pulled to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Maegahira Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Maegahira Shinmei-sha Shrine. This is a very lively festival, in which floats are pulled to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Akiba-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Higashinakaji Akiba-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Akiba-sha Shrine in Higashinakaji. This is a very lively festival, in which floats parade to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Gomyo Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Shinmei-sha Shrine in Gomyo. This is a very lively festival, in which floats parade to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Susanoo Grand Festival (Maegasu Susanoo-sha Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Susanoo-sha Shrine in Maegasu-cho. This is a very lively festival, in which floats are pulled to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Tsushima-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Nakayama Tsushima-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Tsushima-sha Shrine in Nakayama. This is a very lively festival, in which floats parade to the sound of gongs and drums.

Yatomi-City

Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival (Otani Shinmei-sha Shrine Grand Festival)

An autumn festival held at the Otani Shinmei-sha Shrine. This is a very lively festival, in which floats parade to the sound of gongs and drums.

Hekinan-City

Ohamanaka District Festival

【A float festival where you can enjoy a joint performance by Karakuri puppets】 In the Ohama-Naka District Festival, there is a parade round the town by the Nakanokirisha float decorated with luxurious carving, and the Urashimasha float that gives a performance of...

Toyota-City

Yashiro-cho Hachimangu Shrine Annual Grand Festival

With regard to the float dedicated at the Yashiro-cho Hachimangu Shrine Annual Grand Festival, preserved documents show that it was purchased from Iname Village in Yahagi Town, Hekikai County for 600 yen in 1909. The float has two tiers with side wheels, a front sh...

Toyota-City

Asuke Hachimangu Shrine Annual Festival

【A dynamic and fantastical traditional festival 】 The Asuke Hachimangu Shrine Festival, also called the Asuke Festival, is comprised of the Shigaku Festival and Hongaku Festival. It is said that the festival has been celebrated in this style since around the la...

Toyota-City

Kumano-jinja Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

In the Kumano-jinja Shrine Autumn Grand Festival, the float parades slowly throughout the town to lively calls of, "Wasshoi, Wasshoi". When the float arrives at the Kumano-jinja Shrine, festive drumming is dedicated from the portable shrine. At present, the float...

Miyoshi-City

Miyoshi Hachiman-sha Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

In the Miyoshi Hachiman-sha Shrine Festival held every year in mid-October, floats are pulled around and are dedicated to the Hachiman-sha Shrine. The two floats, Miyoshi Kami-gumi and Miyoshi Shimo-gumi, take turns each year to lead the float parade. The histo...

Toyohashi-City

Tadako Hachiman-sha Shrine Annual Festival

In 1981, a youth parishioners' group was established at the Tadako Hachiman-sha Shrine. In May 1982, the youth parishioners cut timber from the shrine grounds, and built a float complete with carving etc. After the float had been built, a Shrine ritual and festival m...

Toyohashi-City

Minato-machi Shinmei-sha Shrine Annual Festival

The Minatomachi Shinmei-sha Shrine, famous for the Onzo Festival held on May 14th and 15th, holds an Annual Festival on October 14th and 15th, in which the six towns hold a float parade together. Although three out of the six town used to own a float, two were disman...

Toyohashi-City

Maeshiba Shinmei-sha Shrine Annual Grand Festival

The float pulled around town during the Annual Grand Festival was donated by Torao Hayashi, the president of Nihon Denso at that time, in September 1961.

Gamagori-City

Mitake-jinja Shrine Annual Festival (Autumn Season Annual Festival Dedication Float Pulling by three districts)

Floats for adults and for children are dedicated on the 2nd Saturday and Sunday of October. (Briefing for float parade participants, cleaning and inspection of the boat, making flowers, producing the rice cake box. Singing rehearsals, decoration.) (1) About the f...

Gamagori-City

Omiya-jinja Shrine Annual Grand Festival

(Origin, etc.) According to documents regarding the origin of the Omiya-jinja Shrine, Nyakuichioji of Kumano Sansha Daigongen was transferred from Shimoichinogo in Mt. Nachi of Kishu by Kikuhime, the daughter of Lord Fujiwara no Toshinari, who is said to have develop...

Gamagori-City

Yaotomi-jinja Shrine Annual Grand Festival

(Origin, etc.) The festival started in the end of the Edo period and increased in scale from the early Meiji period. It is said that the lord of the Matsudaira clan of Gamagori visited the shrine with his retainers when the annual festival was held during the Edo per...

Shinshiro-City

Sekiza-jinja Shrine Annual Festival

The highlight of this festival is the Sasa dance in the parade. The dance is performed by lower-year elementary school students dressed as sparrows who dance around freely from left to right to the drumming of the festival music.

Tahara-City

Akiba-jinja Shrine & Hatake-jinja Shrine Grand Festival

The spirit of the deity of the Akiba-jinja Shrine, the tutelary shrine of the Konosu Beach facing Fukue Bay, is carried on the portable shrine to the Otabisho (the place where the portable shrine lodges during a festival) in the grounds of Hatake-jinja Shrine, where...

Minamichita-Town

Nishimura District Festival

An Autumn festival held at the Hachiman-sha Shrine, the village shrine in the Nishimura District. After the shrine ritual held at the main shrine, the float known to be decorated with the best carving in Minamichita Town is pulled around. This float was originally pu...

Toyota-City

Kigan Festival

The festival originates in a dedication to pray for protection from the plague, and this prayer service was carried out in June before the early Meiji period. The festival date was changed to the 4th Sunday in October in 1965. The Shiga-jinja Shrine, where the fe...

Toyota-City

Kumano-jinja Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

In the Kumano-jinja Shrine Autumn Grand Festival, the float parades slowly throughout the town to lively calls of, "Wasshoi, Wasshoi". When the float arrives at the Kumano-jinja Shrine, festive drumming is dedicated from the portable shrine. At present, the float...

Miyoshi-City

Miyoshi Hachiman-sha Shrine Autumn Grand Festival

In the Miyoshi Hachiman-sha Shrine Festival held every year in mid-October, floats are pulled around and are dedicated to the Hachiman-sha Shrine. The two floats, Miyoshi Kami-gumi and Miyoshi Shimo-gumi, take turns each year to lead the float parade. The histo...