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Suwa Taisha（諏訪大社）

すわたいしゃ Suwa Taisha

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Four shrines make it up: Kamisha Honmiya and Maemiya, Shimosha Akimiya and Harumiya, and some of them have no main hall at all. Once every seven years, at the Onbashira festival, huge trees cut from the mountain are hauled by hand and raised at the four corners of the halls.

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