Tanasoko Suwa Shrine Harvest Festival, Autumn Festival

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Category Name:Rites and Festivals (folk belief)

This festival is a longstanding event dedicated to praying for a stable society, peaceful households, good health and longevity, a bountiful harvest, abundant fish, and industrial prosperity through the worship of the local deity. Children's Kagura is dedicated to Tanasoko Suwa Shrine, and the dancers express their gratitude for the harvest by praising and worshipping the gods and expressing gestures of agricultural work. Tanasoko lion dance has been handed down from Miyata-Jishi lion dance or lion dance in Koutsuura in Ariake Town. The Taiko drum dance is said to have been learned from Koutsuura in Ariake Town about 170 years ago. The procession consists of four people from each village, and consists of about 50 items such as travling chests, Daigasa, spears, Kumage (bear skin), and Torige (bird feathers).

Municipality

Amakusa City

Category

Rites and Festivals (folk belief)

Specific Location

Tanasoko, Kuratake-machi

Cultural Property Designation

Performance Date(s)

the 3rd Sunday in October

Performance Location

Tanasoko Suwa Shrine~ Tanasoko District

Preservation Society

Tanasoko Suwa Shrine (Kagura-mai Preservation Society, Shishimai Preservation Society)