Japan’s 1,000-Year-Old Sominsai Festival Comes To An End

 



Japan's Thousand-Year-Old Sominsai Festival Wraps Up

The Sominsai festival, deeply ingrained in Japan's history, has recently concluded its final celebration after a thousand years.

A Glimpse into the Past Dating back a millennium, the Sominsai festival was a revered event held at the Kokuseki Temple. Starting on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year and lasting through the night, it showcased tradition and spirituality.

The Ritualistic Celebration At the core of the festival was a display of fervor and tradition, where hundreds of naked men enthusiastically participated in wrestling matches over wooden talismans. Their chants of "jasso, joyasa," aiming to ward off evil, echoed through the cedar forest surrounding Kokuseki Temple.

A Tradition Fading Away Unfortunately, the festival has yielded to the challenges brought by Japan's aging population crisis. The responsibility of organizing such an intricate event became too much for the elderly custodians of tradition, struggling to maintain its elaborate customs.

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