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Nakayama Shrine Gonbo (Burdock) Festival
仲山神社 牛蒡祭（ごんぼ祭り）なかやまじんじゃ ごんぼまつり
D A T E2026-02-11
An ancient festival held on February 11 each year at Nakayama Shrine in Shimonokawa, Misugi-cho, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture. Recorded in the Bantogachō register of 1605 (Keichō 10), it features an arrow-shooting rite and an Ogasawara-style knife ceremony (filleting a mullet), after which a cedar-wood phallic palanquin and a straw vulva palanquin are paraded and joined in the precinct. Combining phallic worship and harvest pre-celebration, it is also known as the model for the film 'Wood Job!'. A Mie Prefecture Designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
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- 01Mie Prefecture Designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property
- 02Marriage rite of a cedar phallic palanquin and a straw vulva palanquin
- 03Combination of arrow-shooting rite and Ogasawara-style knife ceremony (mullet filleting)
- 04Known as the model for the film 'Wood Job!'
- 05An ancient rite recorded in the Bantogachō register of 1605 (Keichō 10)
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