A group of portable shrines, each representing their towns or wards within Kuwana City, wait their turn to perform a traditional drum and cymbol rhythm, before returning to their ward and finishing.

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The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.

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