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Hiraoka torimi shrine Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 6/13/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


It is an event that has been succeeded for a long time for 300 years or more with the history, and originally the one done for the wish for a good harvest.
The shishimai is three. It dances and [de] dances with the decoration by which the lion of "Grandfather (father)", "Do not have it (son)", and "(mother)" had each meaning ..the difference...

----Japanese---
300年以上も昔から受け継がれてきた由緒ある行事で、もともとは、豊作祈願のために行われているものです。
獅子舞は3匹。「じじ(父)」「せな(息子)」「かか(母)」の獅子がそれぞれの意味を持った装飾と、異なる舞で踊ります。

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