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A Kannon hall perched on cliffs above the Naka River rapids — the guardian Buddha of boatmen and fishermen since the heyday of river transport

Over a millennium of plague-warding prayers to Susanoo — the Gion Festival on the Naka River banks defines midsummer in Motegi

A sacred site for safe childbirth and child-rearing in the Naka River farming heartland — rows of red-bibbed Jizo statues hold the prayers of Motegi mothers