Onbashira

An experience you shouldn't miss!

We were so lucky that our trip coincided with the Onbashira festival, which is held once every six years! So the next one should be in the year 2022. This festival has been around for more than 1200 y...

My sacred place to go first

Here is my home of soul. This is main shrine of 25,000 Suwa shrines all over Japan. This shrine is also famous for "Onbashira festival" one of craziest fes in Japan held every 7 years. You'll see ...

Japan's best festival

Original Text

Shinto rituals held once every seven years at Suwa Taisha Shrine. Suwa Taisha Shrine, which was rebuilt every seven years, started with a festival that built only pillars. The 1400-year-old grand festival has the longest history and magnificent scale in Japan. As it is said to be "the pillar of Suwa if you look at people," it was very busy even if it was a corona disaster. A wonderful word.

go down to the big tree village of okuyama and become a god.

Original Text

There was an error in the post in May 2016, so I will refurbish it and upload it again. It is a big festival held once every seven years in the Tora Year and Shinnen. Officially, it is called the Shikinen Building Obashira Festival. The festival is divided into Kamisha (Hongu, Maemiya) and Shimosha (Harugu, Akimiya), and a festival called Yamadashi is held in April and a festival called Satohiki is held in May. Because it was once a year in seven years, and it was difficult to understand because it was held for a long time, but it was difficult to understand because it was held for a long time, but ...

I encountered the pillar.

Original Text

The "Onbashira Festival" is held every 7th year in the Suwa region of Nagano Prefecture. "Onbashira Festival" is a Shinto ritual that rebuilds a large fir tree about 17 meters built in the shrine of Suwa Taisha Shrine. It has been an event for over 1200 years, but this time it was said that it became an unusual form due to measures against the new corona. On April 2nd, the pillars will be carried from the mountain to the city, but this time in order to avoid the crowding of ujiko, we abandoned pulling them humanly, and a total of eight pillars will be large. loaded and transported ...