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Origin of “Niigata Festival” is in “Sumiyoshi Procession” which had been done since the Edo period. “Sumiyoshi Procession” is a festival of Tsumoto Shrine (now Hakusan Shrine) which got “Goshintai” (the body of a deity in the Shinto religion) from Sumiyoshi Shrine in Osaka. It started as a festival praying for a big catch (Sumiyoshi Festival) that the ocean in the area is not rough. After that, another event such as “River Fête”, “Opening Port Memorial Festival”, “Commerce and Festival” was held in Niigata. However, there was a demand from the local residents that “summarizing is more exciting than doing the events separately at the same time”.
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