Onzosai (Sacred Garment Festival)

About this event

The Onzosai Sacred Garment Festival at Meiji Jingu marks the beginning of winter by ritually changing the sacred robes of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken to winter ceremonial garments. Shrine priests carry out this solemn task with the utmost reverence, following the traditional seasonal Shinto calendar. The ceremony embodies the meticulous devotion that the shrine maintains toward the imperial figures enshrined within.