Hachinohe Sansha Taisai
is a Japanese festival celebrated from July 31 to August 4 in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Its rites center on three Shinto shrines: , , and shrines. There is a procession of twenty-seven floats and three ''mikoshi'' are also borne through the streets. It has a two hundred and ninety-year history and in 2004 was designated an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. On August 2 the Chojasan Shinra Shrine holds the annual tournament. It is the traditional Kagami-style ''dakyu'' and is held only in Hachinohe, Yamagata Prefecture, and the Imperial Household Agency. See also * List of festivals in Aomori Prefecture *List of Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties *Important Intangible Cultural Properties of Japan *Dakyu is an equestrian sport in East Asia with some similarities to polo. It also goes by the name of gyeokgu in Korea () since the Hanzi character 擊 () is transliterated as: ''gyeok'' or and carries the same meaning as the , which translates as: ...
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Hachinohe Sansha Taisai Festival, 2 August 2014-002
is a city located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 221,459, and a population density of 725 persons per km2 in 96,092 households, making it Aomori Prefecture's second largest city by population. The city has a total area of . History The area around Hachinohe has been occupied since prehistoric times, and was a major population center for the Emishi people. Numerous Jōmon period remains have been discovered within the borders of Hachinohe. The area was nominally under control of the Northern Fujiwara in the Heian period, and became part of the holdings granted to the Nanbu clan after the defeat of the North Fujiwara by Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Kamakura period. The Nanbu established numerous horse ranches, accompanied by numbered fortified settlements. During the Edo period, it was initially part of Morioka Domain, but in 1664 the Tokugawa shogunate authorized the creation of a separate 20,000 ''koku'' Hachinohe Domain for a junior line ...
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