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What's this? Fukagawa Hachiman Festival photos by Philbert Ono. Held in mid-August in Koto Ward, Tokyo, this is the festival's full-scale version held once every three years (1996, 1999, 2002, etc.).

Deity Transfer from Sacred Carriage to Shrine
Aug. 18, 1996

At the end of the festival, the shrine divinity is transferred from the Sacred Carriage back to the main shrine. Brief prayers were given, and the head priest and an assistant went behind the Sacred Carriage to remove the divinity. It took them several minutes. They carried the divinity back to the main shrine.

 

Back inside the main shrine, the head priest heads toward the altar where he put back the divinity during a ceremony. This was the last formal ceremony of the festival.

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