Festivals and Annual Events
January
- New Years Day Service (1/1, 06:00)
- Festival of Origins (1/3, 10:00)
- White Horse Festival (1/7, 18:00)
February
- Setsubun Festival (Setsubun Day, 18:00)
- Kigen Era Festival (2/11, 10:00)
- Bountiful Crops Festival (2/17, 10:00)
March
- Saitousai Main Festival of Colour (3/9, 10:00)
- Spring Festival (3/9, 18:00)
- Spring Equinox and Spirits of the Ancestors Festival (Spring Equinox Day, 10:00)
April
- Rear Shrine Spring Service (4/1, 10:00)
- Inner Shrine Spring Service (4/2)
- Shrine Ruins Spring Service (4/3)
- Sakado and Numao Shrine Spring Service (4/4)
- Outer Shrine Spring Service (4/5)
- Outer Shrine Divine Spring Service (4/6)
- Ikisu Shrine Annual Spring Service (4/14)
May
- Bountiful Harvest and Horseback Archery Festival (5/1, 13:00)
June
- Summer Solstice Purification Ceremony (6/29, 18:00)
- Ōharai Shinto Purification Ceremony (6/30, 15:00)
September
- ☆ Grand Imperial Ofuna Festival (9/1 ~ 9/3, In the year 2014) ☆
- Annual Shrine Festival (9/1, 10:00)
- Chinese Lantern Festival (9/1, 18:00)
- Fortune Festival (9/1, 20:00)
- Return of the Deities Festival (9/2, 15:00)
- Xinggong Angu Imperial Logging Festival (9/2, 22:00)
- Enshrinment of the Ancestors Festival (9/21, 18:00)
- Autumn Equinox Festival (9/22, 08:00)
- Great Festival of Ancestral Spirits (9/22, 08:00)
October
- Offering of the Harvest Festival (10/17, 10:00)
November
- Rear Shrine Autumn Service (11/1, 10:00)
- Inner Shrine Autumn Service (11/2)
- Meiji Festival (11/3, 09:00)
- Sumo Festival (11/3, 10:00)
- Shrine Ruins Autumn Service (11/3)
- Sakado and Numao Shrine Autumn Service (11/4)
- Outer Shrine Autumn Service (11/5)
- Outer Shrine Autumn Service (11/6)
- Ikisu Shrine Autumn Service (11/13)
- Shinjyosai Offering of the Harvest to the gods (11/23, 10:00)
December
- Shrine Offerings Ceremony (12/20, 10:00)
- Tencho Festival (12/23, 10:00)
- Shinto Purification Ceremony (12/31, 15:00)
- New Year's Eve Service (12/31, 15:00)
Monthly Service
- Ceremony for the Ancestors (1st Day of each month, 10:00)
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