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Yobuta Shrine Prayer Festival Naked Pushing Yabutajinjakinensaidaoshi

Prayer Festival Naked Pushing Shinto Ritual
At 8pm, everyone rushes up to the main shrine.
Raise one leg and rotate clockwise and then counterclockwise in a steady motion.
Along the way, songs such as ``Let's strike with a rich harvest'' are included.
Prayer Festival Naked Pushing Shinto Ritual
At 8pm, everyone rushes up to the main shrine.
Raise one leg and rotate clockwise and then counterclockwise in a steady motion.
Along the way, songs such as ``Let's strike with a rich harvest'' are included.

Date: February 18, 2024 (Sunday)

Held on February 18th every year.
It is said to have started in the Edo period as a way to fortune-tell for a bumper harvest, and it is said that villages where people in each village stand in a circle with their bare robes and jostle each other and push the other party to the corner of the shrine are said to have a good harvest. Nowadays, at 8pm, more than a dozen people, including parishioners and local youth sports groups, run up the stone steps to the main shrine, naked in their lower belts, and after the purification, they form a circle at the lower worship hall, chanting wasshoi wasshoi, and walk up to the main shrine. It is a Shinto ritual in which people fly around in a circle to pray for a rich harvest and the safety of their families.
Songs such as ``Let's play with a good harvest'' and ``Let's play with a safe family'' are included and are repeated many times. At the end, they head to the main shrine to pray in gratitude to the god, and then return all together.
In recent years, we have been accepting participation from the general public, and even people from nearby areas are participating.

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Detailed information

Period
Sunday, February 18, 2024
venue
Yobuta Shrine
address
Baba IgaCity
telephone number
0595-43-0158 (Yobuta Shrine)
business hours

Prayer Festival 14:00~, Naked Oshi 20:00~

usage fee

free

Access information by public transportation

From JR Sanagu Station, take the bus bound for Azan Shisho-mae and get off at Kawai.

Access information by car

Approximately 15 minutes by car from Mibuno IC on the Meihan National Highway
Approximately 15 minutes by car from Meihan National Highway “Ichinomiya IC”

parking

can be

*Information as of January 2024. Dates, prices, etc. may have changed, so please check with your contact information before going out.

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