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とにかく節分に櫛田神社に行ってみんしゃい!
Setsubun is a kind of festival which shows the end of winter. Setsubun actually signifies "the parting of the seasons;" especially nowadays it falls on about February 3, the day before the first day of spring. On the evening of this day, people cry, "Out with the ogre! In with the happiness!" while scattering roasted soy beans inside and outside their homes. To pray for good health for that year, there is also the custom of eating only the number of soy beans as one's age. At temples and shrines, too, bean scattering is practiced on a grand scale.
Recently it has been becoming popular to eat a special sushi roll,lucky direction roll called eho-maki all over Japan. On that day we must be facing the good luck direction and also must be eating that sushi without saying a word.
On that day, in Hakata, Kushida Shrine hold the big setsubun festival and invited celebrities scatter roasted soy beans for the attendance visited the holy place, Kushida Shrine. And it's famous for the main shrine gate decorated by a big otafuku mask in this season. You can go through its mouth and come into the shrine.
Anyway you should go to Kushida Shrine on that day.
とにかく節分に櫛田神社に行ってみんしゃい!
Setsubun is a kind of festival which shows the end of winter. Setsubun actually signifies "the parting of the seasons;" especially nowadays it falls on about February 3, the day before the first day of spring. On the evening of this day, people cry, "Out with the ogre! In with the happiness!" while scattering roasted soy beans inside and outside their homes. To pray for good health for that year, there is also the custom of eating only the number of soy beans as one's age. At temples and shrines, too, bean scattering is practiced on a grand scale.
Recently it has been becoming popular to eat a special sushi roll,lucky direction roll called eho-maki all over Japan. On that day we must be facing the good luck direction and also must be eating that sushi without saying a word.
On that day, in Hakata, Kushida Shrine hold the big setsubun festival and invited celebrities scatter roasted soy beans for the attendance visited the holy place, Kushida Shrine. And it's famous for the main shrine gate decorated by a big otafuku mask in this season. You can go through its mouth and come into the shrine.
Anyway you should go to Kushida Shrine on that day.