Willow-Healing Kami Festival

The Willow-Healing Kami Festival honored the kami of the willow revered in the Shrine of the Willow-Healing Kami, who in the second century entreated Ekibyōgami to remove the plague sent to Clear Water Village by the Fortune of Pestilence. It was said that during the festival the kodama took human form and mingled with mortal attendees.