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Nagakute-City Kamigo Sentinel Festival
Date : 10/13/2024
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.