murmurKinoene Daikokuten Year-End Grand Festival
Yonezawa City · Kinoene Daikokuten Honzan Temple, Onogawa Onsen
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Kinoene Daikokuten Honzan · Last checked: Oct 10, 2026
Dates
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- 2026
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- 2027
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- Usual timing
- Usually mid November
- How the date is set
- Every year on November 19
- Venue
- Kinoene Daikokuten Honzan Temple, Onogawa Onsen
- City
- Yonezawa City, Yamagata
About
Each year this grand festival is held at Kinoene Daikokuten Honzan, a temple on a hill overlooking the Onogawa hot-spring village. It belongs to the Daigo branch of Shingon Buddhism and keeps alive a mountain-ascetic (shugendo) tradition that blends the lineages of the Yudonosan yamabushi and the Uesugi clan's prayer temple. Its main image of Daikokuten, the god of fortune, was brought from Dainichiji, one of the temples of Mount Yudono, in 1865, and is named for the kinoene ("wood rat") day of the old calendar, Daikokuten's festival day. The festival sweeps away the past year's misfortune and prays for good luck in the new year: yamabushi gather to drive off ill fortune with rites using a sacred axe, bow and sword, then offer blessings for good fortune. Rites take place twice, at 10:00 and 12:00, and anyone may join; participants receive a talisman, lucky rice cakes and sacred sake.
Sources
- OfficialKinoene Daikokuten Honzan onogawa-daikokuten.jp
- OfficialYamagata Prefectural Tourism Association (Yamagata Kanko) yamagatakanko.com
Last checked: Oct 10, 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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