Pray for no illness at the traditional `` Yukake Festival '' Kawahara Yu Onsen Gunma January 20 14:34
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This spring, a traditional “Yukake Festival” was held on the morning of the 20th at Kawaharayu Onsen, which was sunk at the Yaba Dam in Naganohara-machi, Gunma Prefecture and was relocated to a nearby hill.
It is said that this festival began 400 years ago when the source of Kawahara-yu Onsen died, and when he dedicated a chicken and prayed, the spring gushing out again and the residents were happy to cross the hot water.
On the 20th, while the temperature fell below 0 degrees, a ceremony to pump up the water from around 5:00 a.m., and about 60 local men in the lower zone of red and white, turned from the hot spring. I shouted the word "congratulations" and talked about hot water.
Lastly, he prayed for the blessings of the hot spring by splitting the kusudama with chicken in it and sipping it in hot water.
The participant man who celebrated the coming-of-age ceremony said, "It was great to be able to participate in the first hot spring festival in Reiwa. Kawahara Yu is also going to be more and more new, so we want our younger generations to excite the town. "