🎯Festival Yabusame🐎鶴岡八幡宮shrine

🎯 Yabusame 🐎
Don't miss this opportunity‼️

Every year, from Sep 14th to 16th,Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine holds an event called the "Reitaisai." ⛩️This is the shrine's most important festival of the year. The three days have a rich historical story behind them. Long ago, the festival's deity was the god of the sea, closely associated with fishing. On this day, Minamoto no Yoritomo would go to Yuigahama for a "Hojoe" ceremony, where he would release a thousand paper cranes (origami) and perform the yabusame (horseback archery) ritual🎯🐎
On the final day, the 16th (Tue), we should go see the yabusame and firefly release‼️
🪲As for the fireflies, it will be late time so that’s okay if you want to see or not.

But…Before that,
Let’s see to the “Tokeiji temple” and take Lunch at the Soba or Somen at the restaurant and heading towards Kamakura by walk the “Kamegaya Kiridoshi”slope together 🍃

[Tue,Sep16th]
1:00 PM ~ Yabusame Ritual
In this heroic ritual, archers dressed in Kamakura-period hunting attire gallop on horseback at the Yabusame riding grounds within the shrine grounds, shooting down three targets. This is a tradition dating back approximately 800 years.
5:00 PM ~ Suzumushi Hojoe
In this ritual, bell crickets offered to the altar during the annual festival are released back into the natural surroundings of the sacred grounds. After a gagaku performance and a kagura dance by shrine maidens in the dance hall, the bell crickets are released into the shores of Yanagihara Sacred Pond within the shrine grounds.
⇧Nihongo
毎年9月14日から16日までの3日間、鶴岡八幡宮では「例大祭」という行事があります。これは、一年の中で、神社では、最も大切な祭事です。3日間にはその歴史のストーリーがあり、昔、祭りの神様が、海の神で漁業と関係が深かったので、この日に源頼朝は「放生会」として由比ヶ浜に出て、千羽鶴を放したり、流鏑馬神事を行いました。
その最後の日、16日(火)の流鏑馬、そして、蛍を放つのを観に行きましょう。
蛍に関しては、遅い時間になりますので帰るのは自由です。
13:00〜流鏑馬神事
境内の流鏑馬の馬場で、鎌倉時代の狩装束に身を包んだ射手が、馬で駆け抜けながら3つの的を射抜く勇壮な神事です。約800年の伝統を受け継いでいます。
17:00〜鈴虫放生会
例大祭で神前にお供えした鈴虫を神域の自然の中に放す神事です。舞殿にて雅楽の演奏と巫女による神楽舞を奉仕した後、境内にある柳原神池のほとりに鈴虫を放ちます。

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◆Meeting Time：10:00am
◆Meeting place：JR Kita-KamakuraStation(JR北鎌倉駅)
JR Yokosuka Line(For Zushi or Kurihama)
https://www.jreast.co.jp/estation/stations/563.html
◆Gathering point：West exit(西口)
※If you are coming from Tokyo, get on the front car, go down the stairs at the station and Cross the railroad crossing to the "Right”side.
◆Participation fee：¥1,500(cash or paypay)
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🏮Schedule
JR Kita-Kamakura Sta. ⇒Tokeiji Temple(東慶寺) ⇒ Lunch Time 😋⇒ Kamegaya Kiritoshi (亀ヶ谷切通) ⇒⛩️ Visit & Festival at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine (鶴岡八幡宮) ⇒ Kamakura Sta.

※ This event is a festival, so it may be canceled or changed suddenly. In that case, it will be visiting another temple or something.
※ The viewing location depends on how crowded it is.

※ To participants
Please be sure to contact me via LINE if you would like to join!!
I will share the details of this event and shares the photos each others.
And useful when you get lost or get separated from a meeting point.
📩LINE name：Festival鶴岡八幡宮2025
(◠‿◠)Komachi

🌀Notice
If there is typhoon or strong wind, the tour will be postponed or cancelled. In that case I will tell you until the day before.

＊Disclaimer and Important Notes ＊
I am not professional guide and not trained not for rescuing.Please check your own condition and be responsible for your own safety when deciding to participate in any events.And might cause injury if not carefully perform.I am not responsible any incidents and injury or if you cause injury to third parties during the activities.Please be responsible for your safety during the activities so that you won't cause troubles to other tour and other fellow participants.