{"id":28737,"date":"2026-11-08T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/?page_id=28737"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T08:14:45","slug":"tsurugaoka-hachimangu-chonahajime","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/kamakura-station-east\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-kamakura\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-chonahajime\/","title":{"rendered":"Chona Hajime Shiki at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine (\u9db4\u5ca1\u516b\u5e61\u5bae \u624b\u65a7\u59cb\u5f0f)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video preload=\"none\" height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay loop muted poster=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-chonahajime.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-chonahajime.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Is the Chona Hajime Shiki at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chona Hajime Shiki (\u624b\u65a7\u59cb\u5f0f) is a Shinto ceremony held every January 4 at <a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/kamakura-station-east\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-kamakura\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"42\" title=\"Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine (\u9db4\u5ca1\u516b\u5e61\u5bae)\">Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine (\u9db4\u5ca1\u516b\u5e61\u5bae)<\/a> in Kamakura (\u938c\u5009) to mark the start of the year&#8217;s work for the local building trades. Its name comes from the chona (\u624b\u65a7), a traditional Japanese adze used to shape timber. Ceremonies like this have long been held before important construction work, and one is said to have been held when the shrine was first built. The ceremony recalls how, when <a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/history-person\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"228\" title=\"About Kamakura Figures\">Minamoto no Yoritomo (\u6e90\u983c\u671d)<\/a> built and later rebuilt the shrine halls, carpenters hauled timber shipped to <a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/hase-yuigahama\/yuigahama-beach\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"291\" title=\"Yuigahama Beach (\u7531\u6bd4\u30f6\u6d5c)\">Yuigahama Beach (\u7531\u6bd4\u30f6\u6d5c)<\/a> up to the shrine and shaped it there. Today it is held as the work-starting ceremony for both the shrine and all of Kamakura. The present ceremony was revived in 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Date and Time<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chona Hajime Shiki takes place every January 4, and the ceremony usually begins around 1:00 PM. It is held at a ritual site set up in front of the Maiden (\u821e\u6bbf), the dance hall also called the Shimo-Haiden (\u4e0b\u62dd\u6bbf, Lower Worship Hall), which stands directly in front of the Grand Stone Staircase (\u5927\u77f3\u6bb5) leading up to the Main Shrine (\u672c\u5bae). Before that, a procession carrying the goshinboku (\u5fa1\u795e\u6728), the sacred timber, usually sets off around 12:30 PM from the Ni-no-Torii (\u4e8c\u30ce\u9ce5\u5c45), the second torii gate on <a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/kamakura-station-east\/wakamiya-oji-dankazura\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"310\" title=\"Wakamiya-oji Avenue and Dankazura Path (\u82e5\u5bae\u5927\u8def\u3068\u6bb5\u845b)\">Wakamiya-oji Avenue (\u82e5\u5bae\u5927\u8def)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Led by Shinto priests, the procession moves along the <a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/kamakura-station-east\/wakamiya-oji-dankazura\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"40\" title=\"Wakamiya-oji Avenue and Dankazura Path (\u82e5\u5bae\u5927\u8def\u3068\u6bb5\u845b)\">Dankazura (\u6bb5\u845b)<\/a>, the raised path in the middle of Wakamiya-oji Avenue, and into the shrine grounds to the kiyari-uta (\u6728\u9063\u5504), work songs sung by tobi (\u9cf6\u8077), traditional construction and scaffolding workers. Kamakura&#8217;s kiyari-uta are an intangible cultural property of Kamakura City, handed down by a preservation society of the Kamakura Tobishoku Kumiai (\u938c\u5009\u9cf6\u8077\u7d44\u5408), the local tobi guild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the sacred timber is placed at the ritual site and the priests have performed their rites, Kamakura builders dressed in eboshi (\u70cf\u5e3d\u5b50) hats and hitatare (\u76f4\u5782) robes recreate medieval timber work with old-style tools and movements. It begins with a swing of the adze. Then, one role after another, they measure with a shakujo (\u5c3a\u6756) measuring staff, cut with a saw, snap an inked line from a sumitsubo (\u58a8\u58fa) ink pot, and shape the timber with the adze and a yariganna (\u69cd\u924b), a spear-shaped plane. The ceremony ends with the participants bowing in prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the ceremony, the Kamakura Tobishoku Kumiai usually performs hashigo-nori (\u306f\u3057\u3054\u4e57\u308a), ladder acrobatics, in front of the same Maiden. Tobi workers perform one trick after another at the top of a tall ladder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watching the Ceremony<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seats in front of the ritual site are reserved for participants and guests, and members of the public watch standing around the site. Many people are still visiting for Hatsumode on January 4, so the area in front of the Maiden gets crowded. If you want to watch up close, arrive early. The approach leading to the front of the Maiden may be reserved for the line of worshippers, so after watching the procession, take the path toward Shirahata Shrine (\u767d\u65d7\u795e\u793e) and turn left just before it to reach the front of the Maiden. You cannot go up to the Main Shrine from this path after the ceremony, so if you want to pray there, join the line from the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the New Year visit and the shrine&#8217;s other New Year rituals, see <a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/kamakura-station-east\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-kamakura\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-hatsumode\/\">Hatsumode at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine<\/a>. For the fire ritual on the morning of January 15, when New Year decorations are burned, see <a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/kamakura-station-east\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-kamakura\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-sagicho\/\">Sagicho Shinji at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Access | Visiting During Your Stay at Toshi&#8217;s Place<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine is about a 10-minute walk from the East Exit of JR Kamakura Station (\u938c\u5009\u99c5) or from Enoden (\u6c5f\u30ce\u96fb) Kamakura Station. If you are staying at Toshi&#8217;s Place, take the Enoden from Hase Station (\u9577\u8c37\u99c5) or Wadazuka Station (\u548c\u7530\u585a\u99c5) to Kamakura Station, then walk along Wakamiya-oji Avenue. To see the procession, head from Kamakura Station to the Ni-no-Torii on Wakamiya-oji Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Toshi&#8217;s Place, fully unstaffed smart hotels with fully equipped kitchens and room-only stays, you can head out to Kamakura&#8217;s New Year events at your own pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chona Hajime Shiki at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine is Kamakura&#8217;s work-starting ceremony, held every January 4 in front of the Maiden. Watch the procession carry the sacred timber along the Dankazura to work songs, the old-style carpentry movements, and the ladder acrobatics that follow. For the shrine&#8217;s highlights throughout the year, see <a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/en\/kamakura-station-east\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-kamakura\/\">Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Basic Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Item<\/th><th>Details<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Name<\/td><td>Chona Hajime Shiki at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Japanese name<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/kamakuraguide.com\/kamakura-higashiguchi\/tsurugaoka-hachimangu-kamakura\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"20\" title=\"\u9db4\u5ca1\u516b\u5e61\u5bae\">\u9db4\u5ca1\u516b\u5e61\u5bae<\/a> \u624b\u65a7\u59cb\u5f0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Date and time<\/td><td>Every January 4, from around 1:00 PM (the procession usually leaves the Ni-no-Torii around 12:30 PM)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Location<\/td><td>Ritual site in front of the Maiden, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Address<\/td><td>2-1-31 Yukinoshita, Kamakura, Kanagawa<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>What happens<\/td><td>A procession carrying sacred timber to work songs, carpentry movements with old-style tools, and ladder acrobatics by tobi workers<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Notes<\/td><td>The public watches standing. Crowded in front of the Maiden with Hatsumode visitors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Access<\/td><td>About a 10-minute walk from the East Exit of JR Kamakura Station or Enoden Kamakura Station<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Contact<\/td><td>Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine 0467-22-0315<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Official Website<\/td><td><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hachimangu.or.jp\/matsuri\/\">https:\/\/www.hachimangu.or.jp\/matsuri\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Google Map<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe\n  width=\"100%\"\n  height=\"400\"\n  style=\"border:0;\"\n  allowfullscreen=\"\"\n  loading=\"lazy\"\n  referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\n  src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=\u795e\u5948\u5ddd\u770c\u938c\u5009\u5e02\u96ea\u30ce\u4e0b2-1-31&#038;output=embed&#038;hl=en\">\n<\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Chona Hajime Shiki at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine? 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