Danjiri at Ueno Tenjin Festival

This event is held at Sugawara Shrine’s autumn festival, and involves a parade of seals, danjiri, and demon processions through the towns. In addition to the Mikoshi towns that are involved in the parade of the mikoshi, there are nine Danjiri towns that bring out the seals and danjiri, and four Oni towns that put out the Oni procession, and together the Danjiri towns and Oni towns are known as the Festival towns. On the 23rd, the seals and danjiri are pulled and decorated, and at night lanterns and snow caves are lit. On the 24th, there is the Ashi-soro ceremony, in which the danjiri parade through each town, and the Oni procession also parades down Sannomachi-suji. The 25th is the main festival, and following the parade of the mikoshi, the Oni procession, danjiri, and seals parade.

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