"Kitchen-knife ceremony"

Takabe Jinja Takabe Shrine, located at the foot of a small hill in Chikura Town, is a shrine that enshrines Iwakakumutsukari-no-mikoto, the ancestral deity of cooking, as its main deity.
It is gaining faith from people involved in cooking and brewers such as miso soy sauce.

At Takabe Shrine. "Kitchen-knife ceremony”
It is a solemn ceremony in which carp, sea bream, sea bass, and other fish are selected as sacred offerings without being touched.
The old-fashioned behavior and its kitchen knife handling are skillful techniques.
In the old days, a cook who performed a Kitchen-knife ceremony was called a formal chef and was treated as a special case among cooks.
Our innkeeper is also involved in Kitchen-knife ceremony as a master of Kitchen-knife ceremony.
　

【Dates of Kitchen-knife ceremony】
May 17 (Shijo style Kitchen-knife ceremony)
October 17
November 23