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This is a joint festival of five shrines located in Zeze area that used to be a castle town belongin...

This is a festival held on the nights of July 22 and 23 at Hinogozen Shrine. It features giving voti...

The 24th of November is the passing day of Tendaichisha Daishi Zhiyi, one of the founders [the forth...

It is a memorial service held in the Shinra Zenshindo Shrine where Shinra Myojin is enshrined. Its o...

A Bon memorial service of Miidera Temple is held on August 15 in the new calendar in the Kannondo Ha...

When spring and autumn higan periods come, on spring and autumnal equinox days which are the middle ...

“Taiya” means the night before the funeral or death anniversary. This memorial service is held the n...

It is a memorial service for the temple bell famous as a recurring theme in the paintings titled “Au...

It is a memorial service that is held in the Kannondo Hall of Miidera Temple, the 14th stop on Saigo...

The restorer of Miidera Temple, Chisho Daishi Enchin was born in March 25, 814 in current Zentsuji C...

It is a memorial service that is held on the day of the passing of Dengyo Daishi Saicho, the founder...

It is a memorial service that is held on the day of the passing of Shuzen Daishi Gishin, the master ...

This is a ceremony to praise Priest Kyotai who protects Miidera Temple and is conducted at the Kyota...

This is a great ceremony held in the Toin on October 29, the day when the founder of Miidera Temple,...

This is a memorial service to console the spirits of atomic bomb victims and to pray for world peace...

This is a ceremony held on January 15 every year where disused old talismans are burned with a sacre...

Goho Zenshindo Shrine which enshrines the deity Kishibojin, the guardian deity of Chisho Daishi, has...

Saito Daigoma-ku is a ceremony characteristic of the mountain asceticism which involves praying for ...

The originator of this Mii old-style sencha-do tea ceremony is Miidera Temple. It originated when an...

This is a Buddhist event to celebrate the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha [also known as the Buddha]. It ...

Nehan-e is also called Nehan-ko, and is a memorial service to commemorate and to show gratitude towa...

The Sonjo-o Star Festival includes the prayers and austerities of esoteric Buddhism in which the Ten...

The Ninno-e ceremony takes place at the Kondo, the main hall, on the 8th of the New Year. It started...

Joya-e is a ceremony to look back and remorse on the year at the year-end, and to welcome the New Ye...

This is a festival of Hirano Shine, the enshrined deity of which is Seidai Myojin, also known as the...

The wooden statue of Matsuo Basho enshrined in the Okinado of Gichuji Temple has a nyoi staff, one o...

This is an event held since 1956 to announce the coming of spring at Lake Biwa. In the event, prayer...

This is a festival held at Omi Jingu Shrine and Iwai Shrine that have a deep connection with Emperor...

This summer festival takes place at Karasaki Shrine. It is also called Nagoshi no Harae where people...

This is a festival of Takebe Taisha Shrine, the Shinto shrine with the highest rank in Omi. This gre...

This is a festival of Tenson Shrine and is famous for being one of the three major lake province fes...

This is a ceremony to confess and expiate one’s own sins by prostrating and reciting the 3,000 names...

Ishiyamadera Temple has been famous as a notable site for moon viewing. It is also known that Murasa...

Every year, August 26 is the day of a special relation with Bishamonten (Vaisrovana in Sanskrit), on...

This is a memorial service for the spirits of ancestors welcomed at the Sennichi-e Memorial Service ...

This is a memorial service that is held on the day that a one-day visit is worth the merits of the v...

This is the festival to commemorate the virtue of Rocho Risshi, a leading scholar monk of Ishiyamade...

This is a festival to celebrate the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha [also known as the Buddha]. The festi...

This is a grand festival of Sanjuhassho Gongensha Shrine that is held in May 5. Sanjuhassho Gongensh...

This is an important memorial service where the virtue of Kobo Daishi, the founder of the Shingon se...

The festival of hatsu-uma is a festival of the Inari Shrine which is worshipped as a place where the...

The Ishiyamadera Temple Japanese Plum Blossom Festival takes place when Japanese plum trees start bl...

In ancient times, people read their fortune through the stars. They read their luck of the coming ye...

Acala or Fudo Myo-o is a wrathful deity who leads people with difficulty in enlightening to follow t...

Kobo Daishi, the founder of the Shingon Sect, is said to have died on March 21, 835. Every 21st of t...

Every 18th day of the month is the day of a special relation with Kannon Bodhisattva. In the precinc...

Every 18th day of the month is the day of a special relation with Kannon Bodhisattva. Kannon Bodhisa...

Joya-no-kane at Ishiyamadera Temple starts from two o’clock in the morning when it is said that the ...