Kinoene Daikokuten Motoyama Year-End Grand Festival

About this event

At Kinoene Daikokuten Motoyama, located in Onogawa Onsen, Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, the Year-End Annual Grand Festival is strictly observed every year on November 19. This festival is a regular annual event to ward off misfortune from the past year and pray for good fortune and blessings in the coming new year. Yamabushi mountain ascetics of the Yudono-san lineage gather together to dispel misfortune using rituals involving sacred axes, treasure bows, and treasure swords, inviting good fortune through blessings for luck and prosperity. Festival participants may also win lucky charms or fortune shikishi cards through a raffle, and sacred talismans, fukumochi rice cakes, and sacred sake are also bestowed. Special prayer rituals are held twice, at 10:00 and 12:00, and anyone can participate without a reservation. The offering fee is 3,000 yen per person. Take this opportunity to pray for luck, good fortune, and business prosperity.

Venue

Kinoene Daikokuten Motoyama (Hojuji Temple)

2580 Onogawamachi, Yonezawa, Yamagata 992-0076