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Tsukimi-matsuri (Moon Viewing Festival <Futon
Daiko Float Festival>) |
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| The Tsukimi-matsuri is held annually at Mozu-Hachimangu
Shrine on the Saturday and Sunday just before (or after)
the harvest moon (the 15th of the 8th lunar month) . It features
a lively and soul-stirring parade of seventeen ruby red 'Futon
Daikos' of various sizes, which are carried around the precincts
of the shrine by the people shouting valiantly "Belah!
Belah!" It is said that the Mozu Hachimangu Shrine was
founded in the Emperor Kinmei's reign (532-571). An eight-hundred-year-old
camphor tree, a prefectural natural monument ,
stands in front of the shrine. |
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JR Hanwa Line, Mozu Station, 10 minute
walk. |
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