日本三大八幡宮のひとつ、筥崎宮（ほうじょうや）で、秋に行われる大祭「放生会」は毎年９月１２日～１８日に行われる。放生会は仏教の教え「殺生戒」から来たもので、殺してしまった生き物を慈しむ為に鳥・魚等を放つ供養の儀式事。放生会の始まりは延喜１９（９１９）年で、１０００年以上も行われており、山笠やどんたくよりも歴史的には長い伝統行事なのらしい。というわけで人も出店も多いこと！参拝する人の列があまりに長いため、本堂にむかい手を合わせてお祈りだけしました。
A big festival "Houjyouya" is held in one of the Japanese three biggest shrines, Miyazakigu in every autom from 12 to 18 on September. This ceremony is memorial event for the creature which we have killed.It came from teaching,"Buddhist precept against killing" of Buddhism. This event has been more than 1000 years by 1919. So this is very traditional and histrical. Therefore there were a lots people and branches! The line of people who went and worshiped was too long so we just prayed with folding hands toward the main hall of a Buddhist temple.
↓お化け屋敷 Japanese hounted house
This signboard only scared us！
