Festival for the prolongation of life.

Asekakijizo was caught in the net of the fisherman Sozaemon, and the festival is based on the legend that he sweats white for auspicious events and black sweat for bad events.
It is held to pray for safety at sea, satisfaction with a big catch, safety at home, prosperity in the family business, and traffic safety.

Visitors are treated to powdered green tea made with famous water and Sawamochi cake under the city-designated natural monument, Oshima cherry, which blooms at the site of Ieken no Teahouse, the first coffee shop in Japan.

It is said that the temple was originally built by the residents of the Uzumigata area, who made a great wish and named Garan（temple） Tenshozan Enjoji Temple, and in Ten'ei XNUMX, Tenman Daijizai Tenjin was invoked as the main deity to settle the temple grounds. The temple is said to have once been a popular god of marriage, as it was believed that the god would always listen to the requests of those who asked for help. During the war, it was customary for soldiers who went to war to visit the shrine to pray for victory. Even today, the shrine is said to be “Ishigami san who always grants one wish in one's lifetime.” The shrine is blessed with beautiful scenery in spring, summer, fall, and winter, and holds a spring festival (April XNUMX), an autumn festival (October XNUMX), and the first prayer service (New Year's Day).

There will be plenty of events, including Awabi（abalone） tasting.

A flower festival to celebrate the birth of Buddha. In the precincts of the temple, people pour “amacha” (sweet tea) over the Buddha's birth Buddha decorated with seasonal flowers and make wishes. Nostalgic open-air stands selling goldfish scooping, cotton candy, etc. line both sides of the stone pavement connecting the main hall and the gate of Shima Kokubunji Temple.

This festival marks the arrival of early summer in Ise-Shima and is held to express gratitude for the seafood, including spiny lobsters, and to pray for a good catch. After the ceremony, a contest of "Jakoppe Dance", which is danced to a lively rhythm, is held, and in the evening, a "Roadside Jakoppe Dance" is held with the participation of more than 1,000 dancers, and at the climax, a dance in which the audience participates, coupled with the "Ise Lobster Mikoshi". At the end of the festival, fireworks are set off to the accompaniment of "Nagarebayashi".

In June, numerous hydrangeas bloom beautifully all around the temple, creating a very picturesque atmosphere. On the day of the festival, various events such as concerts and souvenir sales are held, attracting many people.

The “Isobe no Omita,” a representative event of Shima City, is designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Asset of Japan. Prior to the main performance on June XNUMX, the “O-Narashishiki” ceremony is held on June XNUMX every year, in which costumed officials rehearse in full costume as if they were performing in the main event. (The “O-Narashishiki” is held on June XNUMX every year.)

Along with Katori Jingu Shrine in Chiba Prefecture and Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine in Osaka, it is one of the three major otaue festivals in Japan, and is designated as a national intangible folk cultural asset, known locally as “omita.
Each district takes turns to perform the service each year, and all members of the team visit Izawanomiya, undergo shubatsu（exorcism）, and head for omita.
A single 11-meter-long thick green bamboo is tied to a stake and erected between the rice paddies on the west side of the rice field, and a large fan (gombauchiwa) is attached to the tip of the bamboo.
Six Tachudo and six Saotome go down to omita and take each other's hands, then make three and a half laps around naeba(rice field) and begin to pick up seedlings. After the seedlings are taken, the tachudo unties the green bamboo from the stakes, fans it three times, and kneels it down toward the center of the rice paddy.
There is a belief that the bamboos are brought back to the ship to be worshipped as spirits of the ship and used as talismans for great fishing satisfaction and maritime safety.
After the bamboo-taking is finished, otaue begins amidst the music of flutes and drums.
At the end of the ceremony, the procession proceeds to Izawanomiya, parading in a dance called “Odorikomi,” and ends with a children's dance to conclude Omita festival.

This is a strange festival that boasts a tradition of more than 780 years.
This festival celebrates the annual return of Ichikishimahime no Mikoto, the goddess of sea safety, from Yakumo Shrine in Wagu to her shrine on Oshima.
Fishermen and Amas offer fish and shellfish caught in nearby fishing grounds to the gods to pray for safety at sea and bountiful catches, then return to the Wagu fishing port to join ama and fishermen in a tidal battle on board a boat in the bay.
It is believed that if one receives this tide, he or she will be safe and sound in that year.

The origin of the festival is said to coincide with the above historical tale, which is written in “Annual Events in Daioh Town” compiled by the Daioh-cho Cultural Properties Investigation Committee in XNUMX. It is said that the origin of the festival coincides with the historical tale described above.
Funakoshi drums are dedicated to pray for safety in the town, a good harvest, a good catch of fish, and prosperous business.

Sugekasa, a large Zasara dressed in black and a small Zasara wearing a beautiful flower hat played five types of dances in the order of ``Uchikomi'', ``Ayaori'', ``Nagahyoshi'', ``Kokiriko'', and ``Fukiodori'' while playing Sasara made of bamboo. Let's dance.
Prefecturally designated cultural property (designated March 13, 1995)

Umbrellas with the deceased's posthumous and common names written on them rotate around a drum and bell. An event held in memory of the deceased that preserves the form that has been passed down in Shima since ancient times.

This festival originates from a legend that the villagers made a straw sandal the size of a tatami mat and showed it to the giant Dandarabocchi, who was destroying the village, to scare him away.
Two days before the festival, a large waraji one foot, 1.2 meters long and 10 meters wide, is made.
On that day, a messenger receives the waraji and carries it to the worship hall of Nakiri Shrine.
After the priest cleanses it, five young children dance three times in front of the waraji in simple gestures, being controlled by young attendants.
When the dance is finished, a cotton rope tied to the end of the waraji is held and pulled from west to east.
After being pulled at the shrine, the straw sandals are moved to Suba Beach, where they are sung by old women who sing congratulatory songs, and are pushed offshore to pray for safety at sea and a big catch.
There will also be mikoshi and dancers on the way, and a fireworks display will be held at night.
It has been designated as a prefectural intangible cultural property.

Designated by the national government as an important intangible folk cultural property (January XNUMX, XNUMX), this traditional performing arts puppet show has been handed down for over XNUMX years. It is performed on the stage in the precincts of Anori Shrine, and is characterized by its simple, bold, and wild expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and humor.

He is known as Ishigami-san, who makes once-in-a-lifetime wishes come true, and prayers and memorial services are held here.

It was established in 1995 to pray for a bountiful year, big catches, and safety, and for continued prosperity.
It's crowded with people dancing.

This festival is held to express gratitude for a bountiful harvest, a big catch, and the bounty of the mountains and sea.
It's a lively event that celebrates the autumn harvest, and people get excited as they share the joy.
The sound of drums resounds throughout the decorated town, bringing the town to life, and the children's mikoshi in happy costumes spread out in a circle of joy as they shout bravely. In addition, a boat float carried by the Youth Group will be carried out into the town.

Dawn came to the Kashiwajima area when trains started running between Toba and Kashijima with the opening of the Shima Electric Railway.
Wishing for the prosperity of this Kashiwajima area, and believing that it is important to enshrine the shrine that serves as a stronghold for the hearts of the residents, the current location was chosen as the most suitable as a sacred precinct, and a branch of Toba Konpiragu Shrine was enshrined as the guardian deity of Kashijima. did.

This ceremony, held in Kashikojima, Ago Bay, the birthplace of pearls, commemorates the Akoya oysters, whose lives end with the birth of pearls, and prays for the prosperity of the pearl farming industry.

Enshrinement at Ise Shrine Bekku/Iza Shrine. The Choken Festival is solemnly held on October 10th every year to pray for a good harvest for the year. An event where seafood and mountain delicacies are offered to Iza-gu Shrine. We offer our sincere thanks to God for his blessings.

The construction of Japan's first Western-style lighthouse began at Kannonzaki in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. To commemorate the start of lighthouse operations, the date of the groundbreaking ceremony was set as November 1, 1868 (Meiji 11).

This festival is held to express gratitude for this year's bountiful harvest by hanging Inari (Inari) on the ``Inenari''.

The area around the precincts is bustling with chrysanthemum exhibitions, stalls, and events.

On New Year's Eve, around midnight on New Year's Day, when the "name-giving" ceremony is over, a boatman and about 20 children from each district visit each house and offer congratulatory messages to each family member, the boatmen create large sacred ropes on the roads of two locations: the shrine of the mountain in Tenma and the shrine of the mountain in Naga. These ropes are then stretched across the roads, and in a ritual, they are cut with a sacred sword called "Namikirimaru" in Naga and with a fan in Tenma.
Once the cutting is finished, they light a straw torch and then set fire to the straw piled up at Osato Beach.
Fishermen raise this fire with their fishing rods while chanting "Momase, Momase," praying for a bountiful catch.
They rejoice, saying that the higher the fire rises, the more abundant the catch will be.
Furthermore, it is said that people predict the wind conditions for the year by observing the direction in which the smoke drifts.

A large bonfire is lit on the temple grounds, and the area is bustling with people making New Year's Eve prayers. Sacred sake and sweet rice wine are also offered by the Izawa Shrine Supporters Association.

By evening, leeks are piled up on Ohno Beach, and after visiting the Inari Shrine, the flame from the lamp is transferred to a torch and then to the leeks to burn. The way the flame rises is used to predict a bountiful harvest and a good fishing season.
The higher the sparks rise and the more vigorously the fire burns, the more satisfied they are with a bountiful catch.
A prayer ritual for fishermen that has been passed down through generations.