Kashima Shrine - Festivals and Annual Events

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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