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AkitaShrines & TemplesIts inner shrine stands on the summit of Mount Chokai, and which prefecture the peak belongs to, Akita or Yamagata, was disputed for a very long time. A place of worship takes shape by a logic of its own, not by administrative lines.
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 & TemplesAn old shrine tied to legends of the subjugation of the Emishi. It preserves an early stratum of belief in Akita.
AkitaShrines & TemplesIt enshrines the scholar of Japanese classics Hirata Atsutane, and stands on the site of Kubota Castle, now Senshu Park.
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 & TemplesUnusually, the hall sits lower than the approach path. It draws prayers for safe childbirth.
It stands at the 2,236-metre summit. Which prefecture the peak belonged to was disputed for generations.
AkitaShrines & TemplesThe tutelary shrine of the samurai district. The float rite of the Kakunodate festival is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
AkitaShrines & TemplesThe head shrine of Miyoshi Reijin, a deity of strength. Its Bonten festival on January 17 is known for a fierce scramble.
It preserves a striking rite in which worshippers parade in loincloths.
AkitaShrines & TemplesStone steps said to have been piled up by ogres in one night. The core of the namahage legend.
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AkitaShrines & TemplesThe tutelary shrine of Noshiro, which preserves the Yaku-Tanabata rite.
AkitaShrines & TemplesVermilion torii stand on the shore of Lake Tazawa. It carries the legend of Princess Tatsuko.
AkitaShrines & TemplesJomon stone circles, held to be a ritual site, and a component of the World Cultural Heritage site of Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan.
AkitaShrines & TemplesIt stands on the site of Kubota Castle and enshrines the Satake clan.
The float rite of the Kakunodate festival is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
AkitaShrines & TemplesIts kagura hall is an Important Cultural Property, and Shimotsuki Kagura is performed here.
AkitaShrines & TemplesAn unusual arrangement, with the hall set lower than the approach path.