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The rite held to be the source of the namahage tradition. Fires are lit on a winter night.
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Shinzan Shrine is a shrine at Shinzan, Kitaura, Oga, Akita Prefecture. In the Edo period there was Akagamiyama Kohanji, Temple No. 27 of the Akita Six Districts Thirty-three Kannon Pilgrimage, but it became Shinzan Shrine in the Meiji anti-Buddhist movement. According to the shrine's records, it began in the reign of Emperor Keiko, when Takeuchi no Sukune, descending to the Oga Peninsula to inspect the provinces of the Hokuriku region, climbed Wakiideyama (now Oga Shinzan and Oga Honzan), prayed for the success of his mission, the safety of the land and lasting fortune in war, and enshrined Ninigi no Mikoto and Takemikazuchi no Mikoto.
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