Festivals are Hymns to Human Beings: Modern Festivals at Hanazono Shrine
Originally, a festival is both a deity and an offering. But I think the underlying theme is a human hymn.
Especially in the case of Japan, there is a complex religious view that mixes Shinto, Buddhism, Aminism and Shamanism, and it is a complex intertwining of reverence for nature, affection for ancestors, and faith in God.
Politics as devotion. In the first place, politics is written to govern politics (matsurigoto). In the first place, even from the Kido of the Himiko era, politics and faith that led the people were inseparable.
And the era is the 21st century, Reiwa Japan.
Tori-no-ichi, which was both a shrine and an offering, became a "festival" that included not only merchants and managers praying for business prosperity, but also hostesses, hosts, and foreign tourists.
I'm sure there are hostesses and hosts who pray for business prosperity. Since it is Hanazono Shrine where the god of performing arts is also enshrined, there will be prayers in that sense.
However, for many people, such a thing does not matter. From ancient times, the festival called Tori no Ichi, which has been spun continuously by humans, is a digitized modern worship and offering, and it is a human hymn called a festival that transcends generations, cultures, and borders.
So everyone should eat baby castella.

































































































