Omihachiman invites to a temple festival of fire

the Spectacular holiday is noted by annually in the middle of March at Himure Hatimangu's temple in Omikhatiman. On the city Omihachiman will pass grandiose parade of the huge mobile sagite platforms in the first day of celebration with a pine torch 2 meters high. at which top the bamboo columns 3 meters long decorated with several thousand strips of red paper are fixed. In the center of platforms there are figures of the zodiac animals created from seafood and grain.

In midday of a platform collect near the temple then choose the best. After that procession proceeds under loud exclamations "Cho yare, yare yare!" . In days of celebration even men carry a bright make-up. Next day a holiday of a platform burn, and people start dancing under bright fires of fires.

the Festival was for the first time held in the 16th century. New residents so liked a fiery holiday Hatiman Matsuri who is carried out in the same temple in April that they decided to hold brighter festival. It explains why him mark out at this time (the middle of March) instead of New year as Sagite Matsuri originally had to become a New Year's festival of fire. According to history, the commander-in-chief of army "Period of Battling kingdoms" of Oda Nobunaga was the founder of this festival, too carried a make-up and the Sagite Festival took part in celebration
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there will pass in Himure Hatimangu's temple in the city Omihachiman (Prefecture of Shiga, Japan) on March 17 and 18.