About this event
On Labor Thanksgiving Day, November 23, in conjunction with the solemn holding of the "Niinamesai" ritual to thank the deities for the year's harvest, rice ears harvested from sacred fields along with sea and mountain produce of Shiogama are loaded onto ceremonial pulling floats and pulled through the city by parishioners and worshippers. Two ceremonial pulling floats weighing 7 tons and 2 tons are paraded through the city by about 600 parishioners to the calls of "Enya, enya," and the sight of them hauling the floats along the roughly 1.5-kilometer route from the foot of the Omotesaka slope of Shiogama Shrine to the front of the grounds of Shiwahiko Shrine is extremely powerful. It is a traditional agricultural ritual to give thanks to the deities for receiving the new grains.
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Shiwahiko Shrine
1-1 Ichimoriyama, Shiogama, Miyagi 985-0074
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