Munakata Taisha／Festivals and events

January
1-3	新年祭 New Year Festival A festival at the first of the year to pray for peace and prosperity of the emperor and nation.　In addition, many people come to here to hope for traffic safety because the Munakata Taisha is famous as way of god.
1-10	交通安全大祈願祭 Praying for traffic safety
13	献米奉告祭　Kenmaihoukoku-sai
February
3	節分祭　Setsubun-sai
1-10	厄除大祈願祭　Yakuyoke Daikigan-sai
April
1-2	春季大祭　Spring Festival
May
5	五月まつり Festival of May
27	沖津宮現地大祭　Festival of Nakatsu-Miya
July
31	夏越の大祓　Ohharai An event to clean the sin and impurity.　It was be performed in June on the last day of the month of the lunar calendar.　Many human substitutes (Hitogata) are gathered from the whole country to clean up the sin and impurity and passed to the sea.　It means cleaning the sin of people who send substitutes to us.
August
7	七夕まつり　Tanabata-matsuri Festival　（Nakatsu-Miya）
October
1-3	秋季大祭　（みあれ祭） Autumn Festival　(Miare-sai) The festival has been held for many years.　This is the festival to thank to the god for peace in the nation and harvest of crops and fisheries.　First of all, Miare-sai takes place.　Miare-sai is the event to invite and welcome the goddesses from Nakatsu-Miya and Okitsu-Miya to Hetsu-Miya.　The traditional dance is dedicated to the goddesses of the shrine at Hetsu-Miya Honden.
17	献茶祭　Kencha-sai
November
15	七五三　Shichigosan This is traditional cerebration of children age five for boys and age three and seven for girls.
1-23	西日本菊花大会　Nishinihon Kikkataikai About three thousand chrysanthemums are displayed that are gathered from the Kyushu district and the Yamaguchi prefecture.　There are many kind of plants displayed: large flowers,　dwarfed trees (Bonsai), and so on.　The festival is biggest chrysanthemum festival in west of Japan (there are many chrysanthemum festival in Japan).
December
Nearest Sunday from December 15	古式祭・鎮火祭　 Koshiki-sai　Chinka-sai
31	除夜祭　Joya-sai
every month
First and fifteenth day of every month	月次祭　Tsukinami-sai

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