This 300-year-old festival is held annually to give thanks for an abundant harvest and pray for next year’s crop. To honor the shrine god who is believed to be a woman, worshippers grind fresh grains of rice into powder and paint their faces white. This is the only festival of its kind in Japan!
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• 12/2 (Sun.)
• 14:00~
• Free entry
• Oyamazumi Jinja Shrine
• Hakioyama, Asakura City
• 0946-62-0730 (Michi-no-eki Harazuru Information Center)
• http://www.city.asakura.lg.jp/www/contents/1354257567142/index.html
