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Sado Kaifu Winter Yellowtail Bumper Catch Festival

Time of Event
Early December
Venue
Ryotsu

An event in which you can fully enjoy one of Sado's winter delicacies "winter yellowtail." The oily winter yellowtail is exeptionally delicious when it is in season! There are aslo a great many fun attractions such as dishes of fresh winter yellowtail and direct sales of the freshily caught fish .

Setchu Toshikoshi Mikoshi (New Year's Eve's portable shrine carrying in the snow)

Time of Event
December 31
Venue
Hatano

An event which started in 2006. It is an event in which the local people carry a mikoshi (a portable shrine which is believed to quiet spirits temporarily) and welcome the New Year, wishing for good luck. They make one round trip each on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Oshiruko (sweet red-bean soup with rice-cake) is served.

Do-oshi

Time of Event
Early January
Venue
Ryotsu

Literally, "Do-oshi" means "body-pushing." This is a traditional event held in the Tsukifuse district. It is a valiant festival in which young men hold up a man at yakudoshi high in the air and parade in the shrine of the god of treasure in Tsukifuse. (A man's "yakudoshi" is the age of 42 at which many evils are believed to fall upon him.)

Kobie Jinja Taasobi Shinji (Kobie Shrine's Shinto ritual of "playing" in the rice field)

Time of Event
Early February
Venue
Ogi

A divine performance in which the local people celebrate in advance in the hall of worship of Kobie Shrine, praying for a good harvest in fall. They perform a mock play which depicts a year of work in a rice field from rice-planting in spring to harvesting in fall.

Lake Kamoko Oyster Festival

Time of Event
February
Venue
Ryotsu

A day when you can savor a variety of oyster dishes to your heart's content―doteyaki (oysters grilled on charcoal fire), oyster soup, and so on and so forth.