Source: Nezu Jinja Shrine

A traditional festival called the “Edo three major festivals” together with the Sanno Festival and the Kanda Festival

“Nezu Jinja Shrine Annual Grand Festival” will be held for two days, September 21 and 22, 2019.
This annual festival held in September every year at Nezu Jinja Shrine, which has a history of over 1900 years, is called the “Edo Three Major Festivals” together with the “Sanno Festival” and the “Kanda Festival”. It is said that the Edo Shogunate the sixth shogun Tokugawa Ienobu has began the festival of Nezu Jinja Shrine through the feudal political system.
The festival will include performances of dancing that is called “Urayasu-no-mai” and “Sanza-no-mai” (an intangible cultural property designated by Bunkyo-ku).

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