Onbashira
{'<entity_0>': 'Nagano Prefecture', '<entity_1>': 'Lake Suwa', '<entity_2>': 'Onbashira', '<entity_3>': 'festival', '<entity_4>': 'Japan'}
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The Mihashira or <entity_2> (Japanese: 御柱, honorific prefix 御 on-/mi- + 柱 hashira 'pillar') are four wooden posts or pillars that stand on the four corners of local shrines in the <entity_1> area of <entity_0> (historical Shinano Province), <entity_4>. Festival participants ride the onbashira as they are slid down the mountain, dragged to the shrine, and raised, and the <entity_3> has the reputation of being the most dangerous in <entity_4> due to the number of people regularly injured or killed while riding the logs. As the union between Shinto and Buddhism that existed then at the shrines—as in most places in <entity_4>—was brought to an end and control over the Upper and Lower Shrines (merged into a single institution in 1871) was turned over from local priestly families to the government, the <entity_2> Festival itself underwent massive changes. <entity_2> has a reputation for being the most dangerous <entity_3> in <entity_4>, and it has led to the injury and death of participants.
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