The Horse-running Ritual of Honmoku Shrine
Plot: For four hundred years, the Honmoku Shrine in Yokohama’s Naka Ward has hosted the Oumanagashi Horse Running Festival to ward off evil. The day before the festival, ouma horse figures made from sedge grass and placed on boards are passed overhead by shrine parishioners dressed in formal costume until they enter the shrine
Release Date:
Thursday, January 18 1973
51 years ago
51 years ago