Lifestyles and Traditions - Festivals
Held every year on April 14 and October 14 at Oki Shrine (Ama Town)
This festival is held twice every year, in spring and autumn, to honor the divine virtues of Emperor Go-Toba. At the festival in both spring and autumn, Jōkyūgaku is dedicated—a dance paired with music and the waka poetry created by Emperor Go-Toba, and also an Intangible Cultural Property of Ama Town. Furthermore, tea ceremony and a tug-of-war competition are held alongside the festival in spring, and in autumn, there is a children's sumo championship. In addition, at the Shikinensai Festival (a festival in autumn), which is held once every 5 years, there is a shinkō-sai procession from the shrine to the cremation mound.
