Miyagi's Sendai Ikuei High School became the first Tohoku group to win the summer national high school baseball championship, achieving the "winning flag of Shirakawa Seki Crossing." Many high school baseball fans are visiting the shrine on the 27th, which was the weekend of the festival.
Shirakawa Shrine, located at the ruins of Shirakawa Seki, which used to be the boundary between Tohoku and Kanto, is held every year with the hope that the Tohoku region, which has never won the championship in the history of the national high school baseball tournament, will bring back the championship flag. I have sent Shirakawa no Seki passage bills to representative schools in Tohoku 6 prefectures.
Miyagi's Sendai Ikuei High School won the championship for the first time as a Tohoku group in the summer national high school baseball, and achieved the "Champion Flag Shirakawa Seki Crossing".
Many people visited Shirakawa Shrine after winning the championship, and even on the 27th, which was the first weekend, it was crowded with worshipers who visited and bought amulets from the morning.
A man in his 50s who visited from Saitama Prefecture said, ``Hearing that the chief priest has been sending passing bills to pray for victory for decades, I wanted to visit once as a baseball fan. I felt that it was a certain shrine," he said.
Mr. Shigekazu Nishida, the chief priest, said, "I've been sending passing bills all the time because I want to support high school baseball players, so I'm so happy that I'm crying this time."