Ogawa Shrine - Tone District

The God of the Holy God, a famous life Kinohanasaki Minakami Town Designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property "Ota Shrine of Ogawa Shrine" It is said that this Kagura started in the middle of the Edo period, but the details are unknown. In recent years, it has been continued since 1900. Kagura is a prayer (festival) that takes place in front of a place to receive God, and separates private practice rituals from village kagura for puppets at the court. There are four types of Satokagura: Zen Goddess, Izumo Ryu Kagura, Ise Ryu Kagura (including Taiji Kagura), and Ayako Kagura. There are eighteen faces, twenty or more costumes, and twelve seats. Every year at the Kaguraku-den Hall, it is dedicated to the Kagura Yuko at the Spring Festival in April. (From the information board) There is not much relevance to the shrine, but a little about the roots of Ogawa surname. The place name of Ogawa has been around the country for a long time. Ogawa surname is a typical place and surname, and it can be inferred that Ogawa surname bearing the place name has been around the country since ancient times. ・ “Ogawa-no-maki,” a government-run ranch that contributes good horses to the court in Ogawago, Tama-gun, Musashi-gun, gradually accumulated its power and eventually grew into a Musashi samurai group. ・ There was “Shokawa City (Ogawanoichi)” which is one of the ancient cities in Mino, Kunikata-gun, Japan. ・ In Yamashiro, the name of the sakemaker, Ohito Ogawa (Mahito) can be seen after the successor Emperor. ・ The name of Ogawa-san (Miyatsuko) of the Baekje family is seen in Tamba. ・ The flow of Mr. Fujiwara Minamiie Kudo, who originated in Ogawa, Shinanokuni-gun, Shinano-kuni, moved to Ogawa in Ogisu-kun, Kanzaki-gun, and named him Mr. Ogawa. ・ The Hashimiya Akayama Shrine located in Ogawa, Higashi-Omi-shi, Shiga Prefecture, is said to have been created by the guardian deity of Toshio Ogawa as the birth god of the land. -Mr. Ogawa, who originates from Ogawa in Owarikuni Chita-gun, is a member of the Seino Gen Urano family, from which Mr. Daimyo Mizuno of Tokugawa has appeared from Mr. Owari Gen Ogawa (Ogawa). ・ Satake clan of Ogawa in Kuni-gun, Hokuchi. ・ The Fujiwara Hidesato flow lower Kawabe clan of Ogawa in the land of landland Hitoriku county. ・ Yuki Clan of Ogawa, Shinji, Gunma, Japan. ・ Fujiwara Kitaya Kikuchi flow Ogawa clan of Ogawa in Yoshino-gun, Yamato country. ・ The Akamatsu clan in Ogawa, Harima-ku, Shikuma-gun. ・ Goto Clan in Ogawa, Takeno-gun, Chikugo, Otomo Clan in Bungo. ・ Mr. Kogawa of Bigo Onomichi, Aki Kamo-gun, and Suruga-kun Maskuto-gun. Along with them, the Numata clan in Ugawa Kuni-tone, Ogawa (Ogawa, Tone-gun, Gunma Prefecture) is also considered to be the root of Ogawa surname. (Refer to the site "Nippon Travel Magazine")