There are five people in my family. My wife Kimie, an eldest daughter Kaede, a second daughter Miku, a son Jin and me Ryujiro.
It was the Seven-Five-Three Festival of Miku on Sunday of November 19.

The Seven-Five-Three Festival (Shichigosan) is an event for 3 and 5 year-boy and 3 and 7 year-old girl.
They wear a Sunday best and pay homage at a shrine on November 15.

The origin of The Seven-Five-Three Festival is a second to the Heian era.
A death rate of children were very high at that age and children under 7 year-old were called �gchild of the god�h Namely they were not thought as a respectable as a human and were treated as their lives were not settle down in the world. Therefore, we started to pray and celebrate for health in their future.

This is a Nomi shrine of Takatsukishi city, in Osaka.
The Nomi Shrine has Nominosukune and Susanoonomikoto as their enshrined deities. The Nomi shrine came to Takatsuki from near the Ueno Temmangu which is thought the origin of the Nomi shrine.
At the end of ninth century people were saved from a contagious disease by an enshrined deity and from then the faith spreads out. And when the age of civil strife, Mr. Ukon Takayama was the Takatsuki lord of a castle, a Shinto shrine was chased this ground at one time. His father, Hidakami built the Takatsuki tenshu kyokaido (Takatsuki Roman Catholic Church temple) where is a presumed place of it.
The Nomi shrine is written down to "Takatsuki castle illustrated map" as first-rate castle Shrine in the Edo era. There is a Nagai Shrine worshiping the Takatsuki feudal clan Nagais first generation. An EMA dedicated in the precincts. It reminds us an ex-Takatsuki castle.

I want to introduce a Japanese splendid festival.
At first the festival that I want to introduce is "fire Festival NEBUTA" of Aomori.

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NEBUTA Festival is held every year until from 2 to 7 on August.

An item printing in a gallery is the rare item which we treated so far. There is a more splendid item in an item of the past. I will update a gallery.