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Nagakute-City Kamigo Sentinel Festival

Date : 10/13/2024


  • Kamigo Sentinel Festival
  • Kamigo Sentinel Festival

Guardians of local Shinto gods

Portable shrines are mounted on horseback with rifle and bow brigades acting as sentinels while an ornately decorated horse walks around the Kamigo area of Nagakute City. Matchlock rifles are shot off with tributes made to the local Shinto deities at Tadosha Shrine, Kumanosha Shrine, and Shimmeisha Shrine. The festival has been held since antiquity as a means of celebrating abundant harvests in the agricultural areas of the Owari and Western Mikawa regions.
The Kamigo area's Sentinel Festival is also designated by Nagakute City as the Nagakute City Sentinel Festival, an intangible folk cultural property. Come and see the sentinels uphold their duties as guardians in traditional, stoic fashion as well as the beautiful horse and shrine.

EVENT OVERVIEW

Date : Sun, Oct 13, 2024
Holding time : • 8:00 am Departure
• 9:10 am–10:10 am Shimmeisha Shrine
• 11:00 am–12:00 pm Tadosha Shrine
• 2:20 pm–3:20 pm Kumanosha Shrine
• Around 4:00 Finish
Place : Kamigo area (west of Koen Nishi Station on the Linimo Line)
Location : Around the Kamigo area's Tadosha Shrine, Shimizu, Maeguma, Nagakute-shi, Aichi
Phone number : 0561-56-0627 (Life-long Learning Office, Life-long Learning Section, Life and Culture Department, Nagakute City Hall)
Notes : • Gunshots from matchlock rifles sound mainly around 8:00 am–4:00 pm on the day of the festival.
• Be mindful of the sentinels and your safety, watching the gunshots from a safe distance.
• Gunfire routes, locations, and planned times are subject to change.
• Come on foot or by public transportation as parking is unavailable.
• Traffic restrictions apply to areas along the gunfire routes on the day of the festival.

Note: This page may not be current due to update time differences between site databases.
Should accuracy be critical, please verify this information using a direct source, whenever possible.

ACCESS

  • Access by public transport
    Access by public transport
    To Tadosha Shrine: 16-min (1.3-km) walk north from Koen Nishi Station on the Linimo Line (board from Fujigaoka Station, in turn reachable from Nagoya Station by the Higashiyama Subway Line bound for Fujigaoka).

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