murmurAnraku Yamamiya Shrine Spring Festival
Shibushi City · Anraku Yamamiya Shrine and Yasura Shrine
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Kagoshima Prefectural Visitors Bureau · Last checked: Oct 11, 2026
Dates
Dates not confirmed
- 2026
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually mid February
- How the date is set
- The 2nd Saturday of February Usually held over the second Saturday of February and the following Sunday
- Venue
- Anraku Yamamiya Shrine and Yasura Shrine
- City
- Shibushi City, Kagoshima
About
Over 2 days each spring, two shrines in the Anraku district of Shibushi, Yamamiya Shrine and Yasura Shrine, pray for a good harvest in a festival designated an Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Kagoshima Prefecture. On day one, Yamamiya's portable shrine travels to Yasura; on day two, after a rite there foretells the year's crop, it returns home. At Yamamiya, bamboo skewers stand in for rice seedlings as they are planted in the grounds, and a procession heads down to the shore. At Yasura there is kabihiki, a rite deciding the harvest and the catch, and young men in striking black costumes perform the nine Shogatsu Odori dances. The grounds then turn into a pretend paddy for a run of rice-farming rites: tilling, a performer in a bull mask working the field, and sowing the seed.
Sources
- OfficialKagoshima Prefectural Visitors Bureau www.kagoshima-kankou.com
Last checked: Oct 11, 2026. Event information is based on official announcements, but changes may not always be reflected here. Please check each official website for accurate details.
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