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Setsubun Festivals at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine

START: Jan 26, 2023 END: Feb 28, 2023

Setsubun is a festival celebrated on February 3, the traditional end of winter and beginning of spring. Across the country, homes and shrines are cleaned to sweep out bad luck and welcome in good fortune. Dazaifu Tenmangu celebrates Setsubun with an energetic bean-scattering ritual to spread good fortune. During the event, Shinto priests stand on a platform and cast small packs of beans to the eager crowds below. The festival goers try to catch the beans to secure happiness and good fortune for the year ahead. After all the beans have been cast into the crowd, the ritual comes to a climax with a parade of ogres. The ogres symbolize evil and misfortune, and the crowd is charged with driving the beasts away with the lucky beans. The ritual is held once in the morning, and again in the afternoon. Special blessings and amulets are available all day as usual in the main sanctuary and from nearby amulet counters.

Setsubun Festival at Dazaifu Tenmangu, 太宰府天満宮 節分厄除祈願大祭

• Festival Period: 1/26 (Thu.) ~ 2/28 (Tue.)
• Setsubun (bean-scattering) ritual: 2/3 (Fri.) around 11:00~ and 14:00~
• Free entry *Paper fans: ¥500, Setsubun beans: ¥200
• Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine
4-7-1 Saifu, Dazaifu City, Fukuoka
https://www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp/info/detail/923
https://www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp/en/art-and-events/events/setsubun-festival/

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Published: Jan 27, 2023 / Last Updated: Jan 27, 2023

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