A traditional event called "Tozawa's Screw Event" was held in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, where children pray for disease-free breathing by pulling horses made of straw.
The "Tozawa Screw Event" is held in the Tozawa district of Ueda City, where children pull horses made of straw and walk around, offering sweets made from rice flour dough called "screws" to the local guardian deity to pray for good health. It is a traditional event that has been handed down and is designated as a nationally selected intangible folk cultural property.
On the 14th, the children of the district gathered under Dosojin, the guardian deity of the area, while pulling a horse about 60 cm high made of straw on a wooden trolley while being watched by their families.
Then, parents and children joined hands with Dosojin with "screws" shaped like flowers and fruits.
After that, parents returned to their homes and threw the straw horses on the roof, hoping that they would ascend to heaven with the calamities and illnesses that might fall on their children.
A 6-year-old boy who pulled a straw horse said, "I enjoyed pulling a straw horse well."
A mother with a two-year-old child said, "Last year I was still toddler, but this time I was pulling a straw horse with a firm footstep. I want you to grow up healthy and healthy."