The "Sasashu Festival" was held at Daianji Temple in Nara City, where people drank sake in a bamboo bowl and wished to prevent cancer. It was served in the precincts for the first time in a year.
The "Sasa Sake Festival" is a traditional event that is associated with the tradition that Emperor Konin of the Nara period drank sake with a bowl made of bamboo from Daian-ji Temple and lived a long time. increase.
On the 23rd, after the worshipers received a prayer for cancer prevention and disease-free breathing, "Sasamusume" in yukata with bamboo bowls served "Sasashu" in a bamboo tube. I did.
Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the festival was reduced to bring back "sasa liquor", but after taking measures such as only one cup of liquor, the behavior in the precincts was carried out for the first time in two years. The visitors were tasting bamboo liquor with the scent of bamboo.
A woman in her 50s who visited from Kyoto Prefecture said, "I visit every month, but I came to the Sasa Sake Festival for the first time. Thanks to you, my cancer has not recurred, so I want to cherish one day a day." I was talking.