Onbashira is huge tree trunks used as sacred pillars for the Shrines. Tree trunks are brought from the forest. They are cut from 200-year-old Japanese fir trees. In a climax ...

With great pomp and fanfare, Onbashira Log No. 4 for Harumiya Shrine was erected on May 9, 2004. Photos: http://photoguide.jp/pix/thumbnails.php?album=573

This section of the Nagano 1998 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony shows an "Olympic version" of the Onbashira (御柱祭) Festival. For real, these timber logs are cut down ...

Held every 6 years, this festival is about replacing large logs at four Shinto shrines in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture. This video shows a log being dragged through the streets ...

Ombashira Festival of Suwa Taisha Shinto shrine in Nagano, Japan which was held in 2004. This was Kiotoshi event in Simosha on April 10, 2004.

Ombashira Festival of Suwa Taisha Shinto shrine in Nagano, Japan which was held in 2004. This was Kiotoshi event in Simosha on April 11, 2004.

Ombashira Festival of Suwa Taisha Shinto shrine in Nagano, Japan which was held in 2004. This was Tate-Ombashira event in Kamisha on May 3, 2004, that is to build the ombashira(wooden ...

Ombashira Festival of Suwa Taisha Shinto shrine in Nagano, Japan which was held in 2004. This was Tate-Ombashira event in Kamisha on May 3, 2004, that is to build the ombashira(wooden ...

Trying to beat Normal Mode with Reimu (A) Everything was going fine til I got to the final spellcard. But then again you learn from your mistakes. Spellcards! Divine Festival ...