Yosan Shrine - Agatsuma District

Yokiya Yoseki Shrine annual festival The Yokiya Yoseki Shrine is also known locally as Kojin-san. The Spring Festival is held every May to pray for a good harvest, and there are also Kagura and Mikoshi portable shrines, and a market for seedlings and agricultural equipment that is held with the festival. Visitors come from all over the place. The dedication of the Kagura is called Iwato Kagura, which is based on the hidden theme of Iwato Kagura of Amaterasu Okami, and the 9 deities are devoted to it. From the afternoon, there is a mikoshi that looks like a cocoon ball, like a sericulture shrine. (From the site "Festival Day") Kagura of Yokiya Local residents donate the music and dances. It is said that it started around 1892 in 1891. (From Naganohara Town HP) In mountainous areas where rice cannot be harvested, sericulture was an important industry for earning a living. However, the growth of silkworms and mulberries is easily affected by weather conditions such as the weather, and people prayed to the gods and Buddhas for good cocoon harvest. Not only this sericulture shrine, but also all other shrines in the prefecture, such as "sericulture prayer" and "silkguard", dedication kagura praying for stable designs of cocoons were held. This silkworm shrine (called Kojin-san) has a spring festival held in May, and at the Kagura hall in the precincts, the villagers donate the sacred kagura to Karuta Naganohara. Rarely familiar. As a traditional event to pray for the remaining fertility of sericulture, there is the Harukoma Festival, which is famous for a woman in her twenties dressed as a woman walking in Kawaba Village, Tone-gun, and the Kasuga of Kamikawafuchi, Maebashi City. It is known for the "silkworm dance" dedication held at shrines. (From Gunma prefecture website)