Shinto festivals

festival in Kyoto city, Japan

annual festival in Kawasaki, Japan

type of Japanese festival

festivities of Japan often infused with Shintoism, Buddhism and other domestic customs.

Shinto festival in Japan

Japanese festival that takes place in Kanda, Tokyo

traditional Buddhist practise

The Niiname-sai (新嘗祭, also read Shinjō-sai and Niiname-no-Matsuri) is a Japanese harvest ritual. The ritual is celebrated by the Emperor of Japan, who thanks the Shinto deities for a prosperous year and prays for a fruitful new year. It takes place near the Three Palace Sanctuaries in the Tokyo Imperial Palace and at several large Shinto shrines. The first Niiname-sai for a new emperor is known as the Daijō-sai (大嘗祭), and is part of his enthronement ceremonies.

Hari-Kuyō () is the Japanese Buddhist and Shinto Festival of broken sewing needles, celebrated on February 8 in the Kantō region, but on December 8 in the Kyoto Prefecture and Kansai region. It is celebrated by women in Japan as a memorial to all the sewing needles broken in their service during the past year, and as an opportunity to pray for improved skills. It is also called the Needle Mass and Pin Festival. "Hari" means "needle" and the suffix "-kuyo" means "memorial", derived from a Sanskrit word pūjā or pūjanā, meaning "to bring offerings".

The Daijō-sai is a special religious service conducted in November after the enthronement, in which the Emperor of Japan gives thanks for peace of mind and a rich harvest to the solar deity Amaterasu (天照大神) and her associated deities, and pray for Japan and its citizens. From a Shinto viewpoint, the emperor is believed to be united with the deity Amaterasu in a unique way and share in her divinity. In general, the Daijosai is considered as a kind of thanksgiving harvest festival, in the same way as Niiname-sai (新嘗祭) is conducted annually on 23 November, a public holiday of Labor Thanksgiving D

major Shinto festival in Tokyo held biennially in June

Utagaki (歌垣), also read kagai (嬥歌), was an ancient Japanese Shinto ritual gathering. Villagers would meet on a mountaintop, where singing, dancing, eating, having free sexual intercourse and the reciting of poetry would occur, in celebration of the beginning of spring or autumn. These events were closely associated with harvest rites, and therefore fertility.

Japanese festival

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thumb|Shinko shiki for Tokugawa Ieyasu at . thumb|Underwater shinko shiki at Shinko-shiki (神幸式), also known as Shinko-sai (神幸祭), is a ceremonial practice within Shintoism involving the procession of a kami's shintai, or divine object. The shintai of the Kami is transferred from the primary Shinto shrine to a Mikoshi, a portable shrine, as part of the ritual. Typically, this ceremony occurs within the context of an annual festival hosted by a shrine. The procession is regarded as a means through which the Kami may inspect and validate the boundaries of a particular neighborhood or parish.

festival in Tokyo