A Tengu walks through the town. In Numata, Gunma, the summer festival sends a procession bearing great Tengu masks through the streets. Numata is known for Mirokuji temple on Mount Kasho, where the Tengu is enshrined, so this town's festival has its Tengu. The highlight is the portable shrine carried by women, weighing around a ton, among the largest women's shrines in Japan. Not men but women shoulder it, crying "Seiya, seiya," sweating, driving the huge shrine forward. The festival itself began after the war, a relatively new event started to bring life back to the town, though the worship of the Tengu is ancient. An old faith and a new festival; in the summer of this mountain district, the red face of the Tengu stands out bright.