Intangible Folk Cultural Properties Requiring Documentation of Fukushima

Held every spring equinox at Bandai Shrine in Fukushima's Bandai Town, the Boat-Pulling Festival is a 300-year-old harvest oracle inherited from Enichiji, the medieval temple that was the cradle of Aizu Buddhist culture. Parishioners divide into eastern and western teams to pull a wooden boat laden with three rice bales, and the outcome foretells the year's rice harvest and grain prices. A priest wearing an elder mask embodies Bandai Myojin, the mountain deity, delivering judgment in person—an ethnographically rare moment of a god appearing directly before worshippers, recognized as a nationally selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

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