About this event
This is the annual grand festival of Gosha Shrine, enshrined in Ayase City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The annual festival date is held on October 1 each year. Legend says the festival traces its origins to Prince Yamato Takeru stopping here during his eastern expedition, erecting five sakaki branches to enshrine the Five Generations of Terrestrial Deities, and honoring it as the Shrine of Five Heads. The clan of Shigekuni Shibuya, lord of Hayakawa Castle during the Kamakura period, also revered this Gosho-no-miya (the current Gosha Shrine). In Keian 2, the shrine was granted a red seal land grant of 13 koku by the 3rd Tokugawa Shogun, Iemitsu, marking it as a festival of a historic shrine. Specific festival details and the presence of stalls or vendors are not mentioned in the source and remain unconfirmed. Please check with the shrine for the latest updates.
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Gosha Shrine
1603 Hayakawa, Ayase, Kanagawa 252-1123
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