About this event
The "Kuwa no Matsuri" (Hoe Festival) is a traditional agricultural Shinto ritual held at Ogunitama Shrine in Sakuragawa City. In the front courtyard of the shrine building, a sacred rice paddy is created using sprigs of sakaki (sacred evergreen), and a Shinto priest wearing an Okina (elderly man) mask uses a hoe made of sakaki to till the field and perform the ritual actions up to rice planting. This Shinto ceremony embodies the very essence of agricultural culture praying for a bountiful harvest.
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Ogunitama Shrine (Ogunitama, Sakuragawa City)
1 Ogunitama, Sakuragawa-shi, Ibaraki 309-1244
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