2022-07-23

Suwa Shrine in Sapporo !


by Kazu

We took a good walk to the premises of Hokkaido University. The University Festival was held for the first time after the pandemic of covid-19. 
The students, particularly the international ones must have been eager to set up the pop-up vendors on the main street recent three years. After pop by the pop-up eateries on the premises we headed to Suwa Shrine in Sapporo.
Suwa Shrine is headquartered in Nagano Prefecture and has special rough festival every five years. They change the pillar in front of the shrine. The new pillar made of cedar trunks are carried through the slope on the way from the mountain to the shrine. The carriers ride on the trunk when the pillars slide down the slope. Sometimes some riders  lose their lives.


 

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