For the main festival, Dynasty and Chinowa
It is said that the Tsukiji Lion Festival began with a giant head of a dragon that obeys clouds, a tiger that obeys the wind, and a lion that confides all things in a single voice.
The Sennuki portable shrine, which is said to be the highest peak in the existing Edo portable shrine and the greatest masterpiece of the important cultural property class that can never be done again as an ornamental mikoshi.
This year, the main festival is held once every three years. From June 9 (Thu) to 12 (Sun), the Tsukiji Lion Festival was held. On the morning of the 12th, the pilgrimage with a large lion (male lion) of the portable shrine Senukigu Shrine on a trolley went around shrine parishioner.
On the grounds, as usual, the installation of Chinowa began until the great exorcism ceremony on June 30. You can feel a different atmosphere than usual.
Tametomo Minamotono is a brave warlord during the Heian period. He is the uncle of Minamoto no Yoritomo and Yoshitsune who opened the Kamakura Shogunate. Known as the master of the bow of the rigid force Musou, he leaves many anecdotes. The extraordinary power is that when pox (smallpox) became prevalent, a custom was born to put a tag with the name of Tamucho on the gate, etc., saying, "Tamucho will release the plague god."
Since ancient times, the large bow of Shigefuji Temple (burned down with the shrine hall in the Great Kanto Earthquake), which is said to have been used by Tametomo Minamotono as sacred treasures, and the picture of Tamechoko is distributed as a talisman with a small Chinowa attached to Tametomo Minamotono. (Limited quantity)
◆Hajime Shrine
6-20-37, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo