The Jinkoh-sai
- Sawara area
place : The Katori Shrine
This is a traditional festival that has been held for about 800 years.
This festival reproduces the event that the god in the Katori Shinto shrine conquered the eastern country.
It's like an age picture scroll.
30,000 people enjoy it every year.
How about visiting the Katori Shinto shrine in this spring?
Parishioners wear the costume at the Heian era, and it walks in surroundings of the Shinto shrine. The procession consists of about 200 people.
The person who did the appearance of the warrior of Yoroikabuto and the person who has the escutcheon and the halberd participate.
The plus information
The sights a little way off
- Historic street of Sawara(National landscape conservation area)
- Memorial hall of Inoh Tadataka
- historic house of Inoh Tadataka
- The museum of festival float in Sawara
- Kampukuji-temple
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- Reference
- Sawara area