Tradition has it that the deity enshrined here, Ōmononushi-no-ōkami, is an attractive small snake revered as the kami of industry, medicine, and sake brewing. The shrine draws worshippers from ...

The Onabare festival is a 300-year-old folk cultural property in Kami, Kochi Prefecture. A portable shrine is paraded through the streets, with dancing and other performances taking place along ...

A third deity, Shiotsuchi-no-Oji-no-Kami, saw to it that the district in which Shiogama Shrine stands is safe and at peace. The guide said with grave authority that this shrine is extraordinary as ...