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AkitaShrines & TemplesThe stage for the new year Saito festival and the namahage rite. At the Saito festival, large rice cakes roasted over the sacred fire are offered to the mountain deity. Mountain worship in northern Japan keeps forms that are proved with the body.
AkitaShrines & TemplesBeyond 999 stone steps, said to have been piled up by ogres in a single night, five halls stand in a row. One source of the namahage legend.
AkitaShrines & TemplesStone steps said to have been piled up by ogres in one night. The core of the namahage legend.
AkitaFestivalsThe rite held to be the source of the namahage tradition. Fires are lit on a winter night.
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AkitaMuseumsA hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.