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Hatsuuma Taisai (First Colt Festival)
Matsusaka City 2010/March.8(Mon)～2010/March.10(Wed)
Men and women at the unlucky age and pilgrims to the shrine make merry throughout the town, and 19-year-old girls in kimono are especially attractive. Good-luck toys "Saru-hajiki" and "Nejiriokoshi" snack twists are sold, and people buy them to pray for no problems throughout the year.
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Iga Ueno Ninja Festival
Iga City
2010/April.1(Thu)～2010/May.5(Wed/Holiday)
A variety of events with the Ninja theme are held mainly on weekends and holidays, and during those periods, many citizens such as hotel and shop employees dress up like Ninjas to create a "Ninja village".
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The Inabe Shinto Shrine Ageuma Ceremony (Oyashiro Festival)
Touin-cho
2010/April.3(Sat)～2010/April.4(Sun)
Six young riders are chosen from among the shrine parishioners to participate in the Ageuma ceremony. Wearing the traditional warrior costume, they mount horses and jump them over an embankment more than two meters high.
The excitement and tension derived from watching the horse and rider become as one enthralls the spectators.
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Kojinyama Haru Eshiki (Mt. Koujin Spring Service)
Suzuka City
2010/April.7(Wed)、8(Thu)
Made famous by the epic song "Jirocho Den Kira no Jinkichi". In the main temple building, Jinkichi's Sando-gasa (hat), coat, and matchlock rifle are stored. There is a fire-walking show, and when pious men and women walk across coals, they will have a year free of sickness or disaster.
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Haru no Kagura Matsuri (Spring Shinto Dance Festival)
Ise City
2010/April.28(Wed)～2010/April.30(Fri)
Twice a year, in the spring and autumn, on the Shinto dance pavilion of the Ise Shrine, a Shinto dance is offered to pray for peace for citizens, and in the shrine garden of the Inner Shrine, Shinto court music is performed. In addition, ikebana (flower arrangement), Japanese noh, etc. are performed by masters from various regions of Japan.
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Kingyo (Goldfish) Festival
Kuwana City
2010/May.2(Sun)、3(Mon/Holiday)
An annual festival of Chinkokusyukoku Shrine. Goldfish dealers of the area bring the goldfish which they have raised to the shrine and open many stores in the shrine ground for the enjoyment of all the worshippers who come to the shrine. In addition, the children of the area carry a goldfish shrine through the towns to increase the festival excitement even more.
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Meoto Iwa Ooshimenawahari Ceremony
Ise City
2010/May.5(Wed/Holiday)
rope around them is considered the equivalent of stretching a straw rope across a torii (Shinto gateway).
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Ise Ebi Matsuri (Spiny Lobster Festival)
Shima City 2010/June.5(Sat)
A celebration centered on spiny lobster, the symbol of Hamajima-cho, to express appreciation for the benefits of the sea and also to pray for a bountiful catch. A parade winds along the Dream Coastal Road following a giant 6.5m-long, 450kg carved spiny lobster.
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Saioh Festival
Meiwa-cho
2010/June.5(Sat)
Royal court scroll pictures are recreated in a colorful event, with the procession of the high priestess, purification ceremony, drums, high priestess dance, markets, blooming of irises, etc.
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Izawanomiya Otaue Matsuri (Rice Planting Festival）
Shima City
2010/June.24(Thu)
One of Japan's three major rice planting festivals, it takes place in "Izawanomiya", the annex of the Inner Shrine of Ise Shrine. Wearing magnificent old-fashioned robes, they transplant rice in time with ancient music, with bamboo pulling and dancing-in by youths being repeated and expanding the festival to fever pitch.
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Shirongo Festival
Toba City
2010/July.11(Sun)
"Shirongo" Festival of Shirahige Shrine, honoring women divers. At the sound of the triton horn, the women divers all dive into the water together in full force, competing to be the first to retrieve an abalone. The first male and female abalones retrieved are offered at the shrine to pray for ocean safety and an abundant catch.
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Shiokake Matsuri (Seawater Splashing Festival)
Shima City
2010/July.12(Mon)
To pray for the return of "Ichikishima-Hime-no-Mikoto", the goddess of the sea, to the Oshima shrine, women divers and fishermen offer abalones, etc. and after a ceremony to pray for ocean safety and an abundant catch, boats and seamen splash each other with seawater or throw each other in, making it a unique free-for-all festival.
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Zaruyaburi
Tsu City
2010/July.15(Thu)
The annual summer event of Ishiki and Yakumo Shrines. In addition to youths from the Ishiki region, about 70 to 80 other youths come and scramble naked for the "zaru" basket in a traditional ceremony with a history of around 400 years.
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Ise Jingu Hono Zenkoku Fireworks Festival
Ise City
2010/July.17(Sat)
An event celebrating and commemorating the 59th transfer of the god-body to the shrine in 1953. Fireworks artists from all over Japan give their all, firing about 9,000 brilliant modern fireworks into the sky, creating a great symphony of fire and sound and light as they compete in the night sky over the clear waters of the Miya River.
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Kuwana Riverside Fireworks Festival
Kuwana City
2010/July.24(Sat)
Approximately 4,000 fireworks fill the night sky as lanterns in remembrance of the victims of the Ise Bay Typhoon float down the river's surface. There are several thousand airborne fireworks, star mines, exhibition fireworks, the Tokai region's largest 2-shaku ball, etc.
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Lantern Festival
Kihoku-cho
2010/July.24(Sat)
In 1928, the tradition of floating lanterns down the river when the river opened was started. After that, it was discontinued for a time, but it was revived in 1987. During the daytime, the lantern is pulled through the street on foot, and at night the giant 7m lantern, of which only 1 is made per year, is floated down the river accompanied by a fireworks performance over the ocean.
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Dai Yokkaichi Matsuri (Grand Yokkaichi Festival)
Yokkaichi City
2010/July.31(Sat)
2010/August.1(Sun)A celebration which has become familiar as poetic charm to summer, several festival floats including the giant float of "Japan's largest mechanical doll" make appearances in a line of national cultural assets. Other features of this celebration are Suwa drums, a dance festa, etc.
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Oyodo Gion Festival
Meiwa-cho
2009/July.31(Fri)
An exciting festival which has been passed down from the middle of the Edo period. Floats are pulled through the streets of the region, and particularly at night, loading the floats onto boats is particularly beautiful to watch. In the evening, a fireworks festival is held around Oyodo Port.
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Kiwa Fire Festival
Kumano City
2010/August.7(Sat)
By shooting all the various disasters into the night sky together with a torch as the main focus of the Pillar Festival, they pray for the safety of the whitewater raftsmen and protection from disease and disaster, and for large catches in a tradition passed down from ancient times on the Kumano River waterways.
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Kanko Odori Dance
Ise City
2010/August.16(Mon)
Dressed in a grass skirt with a long horse-haired mask, they dance around the bonfire in time to Buddhist chants, triton shells, and bells.
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