Akutai Matsuri – Ashikaga Cursing Festival

DATES
31 Dec, '25
31 Dec, '25
PLACE
Ashikaga
Japan
TYPE
Eccentric
Traditional

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The Ashikaga Cursing Festival (Oiwasan Akutai Matsuri) is a distinctive New Year’s Eve tradition held at Oiwasan Bishamonten temple. This formal purification ritual involves participants climbing Mount Oiwa and loudly shouting frustrations to cleanse their spirit of the past year’s burdens. It is held annually on December 31st, with the main procession beginning late in the evening.

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