Suwa Shrine - Agatsuma District

Omae Suwa Shrine Main festival god Ken Onomoku Life Yasaka Sword Sale God of God, Dainichi Keison, Toyokage Himemei, Daimyo Hime, Bancho Himemei, Tabata Life, Ichikishima Himemei, Sugawara Michizane Oyama Tsumigami "Omae 88 night lion dance" In early May, 88 nights are considered to be a turning point for agriculture, and spring festivals are held at Suwa Shrine in Ohmae. After dedication of the lion dance in the precincts, the stalls are lowered down the stairs at "Miyashita", and the lion dance is drawn in the ward and shown at seven locations such as the premises of the government office. Depending on the location, "small lions" and "middle lions" will be added to further enhance traditional events and the Omae district will be filled with festival colors for two days. (From the Tsumagoi Village Office website) There are also folk tales related to Omaemura. "Old Hiramatsu glasses" A long time ago, there was a good old man in Hiramatsu who was in Omaemura. Grandpa Hiramatsu pulls horses from rice fields and fields to bring the charcoal burned by the people of the village to Ueda, and carries a sickle, a hoe, and other oil and fish that he asked for on the way home, and earns a bad wage. I was living in. One day, as usual, Grandpa Hiramatsu carried charcoal to Ueda and asked him to load it on his horse. When I took a pass from Shibusawa, the horse suddenly fluffed and stopped working. "Hey," he said, banging his horse's butt and getting angry and angry, climbing the mountain pass, and dropping the dried fish requested by the teahouse, the bag was broken and there were some fish. Grandpa Hiramatsu said, "I'm afraid I've been caught somewhere, I'm sorry." He made up the shortfall from the wasted money he got from the teahouse. I thought it was weird, but he gave up because he was bad. After a while, when I was asked to fish again and piled up and came back, the bag broke again and some of the fish were dead. "I'm sorry," said Grandpa Hiramatsu, who paid the shortfall from the bad fare. Grandpa Hiramatsu thought it was funny, but he gave up because he was bad. After a while, I was asked for fish again. When I came to the teahouse after crossing the pass, be careful not to get caught in the branches, saying, "Don't be careful." Grandpa Hiramatsu, who has a good friendship, said he was in trouble because he couldn't make much money by replacing the shortage. That's why I went to the chief wisdom of the village, the priest, for a consultation. After the story was heard by the priest, he told Grandpa Hiramatsu, "Oh, it's a fox, I'm sure you'll lend me something good about the foxes of the Myojinfuchi in Kamikawa. Bring the old glasses from the back and say, "This is the spectacles that are transmitted to this shrine. It's hard to see and deceive the arcs and raccoon dogs." I lent you. Then, the priest taught that he should use the thorny dwarf tree as a cane. As Mr. Hiramatsu said, he said that he went back to Ueda with charcoal and dried fish on his way home. When I took a pass from Shibusawa, the horse suddenly fluffed and stopped moving. Hiramatsu is wearing glasses as he told the priest, and when he looks at the horse, he sees a fat arc on his back, and he thinks he can't see it, and he is breaking the bag of fish. When. Mr. Hiramatsu said that he fluttered the fox with the sword of the thorns, which had grown up, and said, "Kim, live!" The fox was blown away and ran around to death and fled to Myojinfuchi. From then on, it was a story that Mr. Hiramatsu's bag of fish could never be torn. The mysterious wonder glasses are a story that is still present in the Shinto house. (From "Aigo --- Kamishin Kogen Folktales")