A festival from November eighteenth to twenty-sixth at Ōmiwa Jinja in Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture. Another name for this shrine is Sōsha Rokusho Myōjin (the shrine that enshrines the kami from six other locations). It was the sōsha (shrine enshrining all the kami of a province) for Shimotsuke Province (present-day Tochigi Prefecture). On November eighteenth, participants process to a temporary structure with an iron halberd wrapped thirty-six times in straw and rope. This halberd is the sacred object (shintai) for the spirit of Mt. Ōmiwa, whose presence was also transferred (kanjō ) to Shimotsuke Province from the Miwa mountains in Yamato (in present-day Nara Prefecture). A young girl called kurumesama serves the shrine during the festival. Until recently, a large number of ujiko (shrine parishioners) approached the shrine naked on each evening until the twenty-fifth carrying two litters of sacred food and sake (miki). On the mid-point day of the twenty-third, there is an ohimotoki matsuri (rite of undoing the cord). The rope that wraps the halberd is cut and distributed to pregnant women as protection charms for safe childbirth. The ohokosama (sacred halberd) leads the return processional on the evening of the twenty-fifth with the kurumesama's procession following. Formerly, there was a jostling of cask palanquins (tarumikoshi), but no longer. The kurumesama is said to be a vestige of human sacrifice.