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Kaizu Sumo Wrestlers Festival

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This is the annual spring festival of Kaizu Tenjin Shrine, held every year on April 4th. Two mikoshi (portable shrines) are enshrined at the shrine, and the chief priest recites a prayer. Carried by young men wearing colorful mawashi (traditional Japanese apron), the two mikoshi depart from Kaizu Tenjin Shrine. The two groups split into Kaizu and Nishihama, and shout "Yoiyasaja!" as they parade through the Kaizu and Nishihama areas, shaking the mikoshi vigorously up and down and left and right. After reuniting where they split off and taking a short break, the evening section begins, and the young men carrying the mikoshi parade the same route once again. The two mikoshi reunite again and return to the shrine, where the festival reaches its climax. In the shrine grounds, in the dim light of torches, the mikoshi are violently "oneried." This festival is said to have begun 29 years ago, when Kaizu Port was a bustling transportation hub from the Hokuriku region to Kyoto. At that time, young men working at shipping wholesalers would dress up in decorative mawashi (sumo wrestlers' mawashi) and compete to see who could be the most beautiful.

Address
1253 Kaizu, Makino-cho, Takashima City, Shiga Prefecture
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Contact Us
Kaizu Tenjin Shrine TEL: 0740-28-0051
Access
From JR Makino Station, take the bus (Makino Kogen Line) for about 2 minutes, get off at "Kaizu", then walk for about 3 minutes

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