Pull out parts of Hikiyama from warehouse and assemble

Hikiyama is assembled by each town’s people, and decorations are sticking to commitment until just before the actual turn.

Before the festival, cleanse the houses of festival officials

The priest of Tsuchizaki Shinmeisya and suite visit and visit Generational, Sakaki-mochi, conspirator, priestess, chairman’s house, etc. and carry out exorcises.

Two pairs of white flags raised at the meeting place at 2 AM

At 2 am on the 15th, the executives correct their clothes and set up a white flag before the convention site as a mark of the divine power of God that is coming down.

Let God’s alter ego in the paper of the meeting place

A convention place is set up in the town where it is represented, and a divine act to bring God’s alter ego to paper.

The priest does shrine and purify hikiyama

It is done in the form of a yukata as well as at the time of the festival. Like the mein meeting place, an altar that enshrines the he Amaterasu Okami god is set up.

They pray for good weather and safety during the festival period

Every morning from the 16th day after Opening of the mein meeting place, it will be held by the priest and representative officials.

They pray for good weather at the festival

At the main shrine of Tsuchizaki Shinmesya, the representative stakeholders, Sakaki-mochi, and conspiratorwill attend.

The priest purifies Otabisho

The priest purifies Otabisho in Kokubo-cho and Sozenmachi ,resting place during mikoshi journey,

They purify the clothes to wear after Yoimiya Festival

They cleanse clothing such as clothes, gowns, underwear etc worn by representatives of the town and representatives of the town, Sakaki-mochi, conspirator in the festival.

Hikiyama passing through Torii at Tsuchizaki Shinmeisya

Leave each town in the morning. They visit Tsuchizaki Shinmei company late morning and dedicate Hikiyama. At this time, to honor God to dedicate, the hikiyama is pulled in front of the doll side.

Sword dancing by the priest

The sequence of sacred rituals to receive god into the Tsuchizaki Shinmeisha. Purification rites, the offering of food and the chanting of prayers are performed, followed by a sequence of various dances including the sakaki branch dance, the sword dance, the urayasu dance and the lion dance, finishing with the offering of a sprig of a sacred tree (“tamagushi”).

Finishing the shrine, a silent queue that carries a great budget to Tsuchizaki Shinmeisya

Houhei-Shinji is the ceremony which prayed for safety in the way of pulling the portable shrine. Priests take the divine spirit who has come down to the sacred paper of the meeting place to the main building of Tsuchizaki Shinmeisya.

Participant who cleanses with a hot-water broom

“Purification rites, the offering of food and the chanting of prayers will be performed, followed by urayasu dancing. After the urayasu dance, a broom dipped in a boiling pot is offered to visitors, who can use the broom to purify themselves with the drips of hot water.
Steam from the boiling water also has a purification power, which is used to purify sacred amulets (kamifuda).”

A priest who puts God’s alter ego on sacred paper on a shrine

The priest moves the division of God who lives in the sacred paper in the main shrine to the portable shrine. At this time, the priest moves on white masked white gloves so that they do not breathe or sweat in the division of God.

Otabisho Festival held during people watching in Kokubo-cho

On the way of passing the shrine, a mikoshi stops at Kokubo-cho and Sozenmachi shopping mikoshi, and a festival is held.

Hikiyama rushing hard at the main street

After finishing the festival in Kokubo-cho and watching the shrine, it will be “Miyuki Yama” heading toward Sozenmachi . The festival is exciting, such as departing each town in turn, continuing to Honcho street, and performing arts everywhere.

Otabisho Festival in Sozenmachi

As well as Kokubo-cho, Otabisho Festival is also held at Sozenmachi.

The priest who finishes the shrine and returns the spirit to the main hall

As well as Syutsugyo Festival , the priest return the divine power of God to the main shrine from the shrine during the warning of the priest “oh”.

Igarashi Memorial Hospital front intersection which is crowded with a spectator

Each town starts in order and returns to the town itself. To the melancholy tune of “Aiyabushi” music, This is where the excitement of the festival reaches its peak.

The next day of the festival, Hikiyama is dismantled during the 22nd

Disassembly of Hikiyama, which was assembled over a long period of time, will be completed within 22 days.

The Spirit which was despaired at the convention site is returned.

The spirit who was descended to the meeting place with the warning of “Oh” by the priest is returned to heaven, and the series of festivals of the festival is over.

In each town, we will pay the bills and bills to the chairperson and officials’ home, and then we will pay the fee as a festival’s consolation and close down.