Autumn Equinox & Imperial Memorial
Kyoto · Yasaka Shrine
Sep 23, 2026
🎗️ Culture🏮 Festival
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About this event
This ceremony at Yasaka Shrine combines the Autumn Equinox ritual with a formal veneration of the imperial ancestral spirits (Korei), held simultaneously at shrines across Japan. Priests perform sacred rites expressing gratitude for the harvest season and reverence for the imperial lineage. It is a deeply layered ceremony that unites the cycles of the natural world, agricultural thankfulness, and Japan's imperial tradition.
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