On the evening of the Obon on August 15th every year, a fire rooster will be held at Shingen mounds in the Nagashino / Shirakara Battlefield site.
Shingen mound is the mound that bury the war dead in Shitara original battle. In the meantime, a large number of bees occurred from this mound shortly after the battle, and tormented the people. It is the beginning of this festival that the villagers who thought this was the ghost of Takeda, burned a torch of 2 to 3 meters in diameter and 80 cm in length to shine the spirits of the Takeda army who died of the war at Shingen mound It is said. The men in the village each hold a big torch, waving a torch to draw a figure 8, with a bamboo shoot or a drum-shaped drum.
In this way, fire guards have been keeping tradition for over 400 years without fail.