It is a monthly festival held on a day related to the shrine.
At Kenkun Shrine, the festival is held on the 1st of every month, following the annual festival held on July 1st.

It is a Shinto ritual held on June 30th, which is halfway through the year, to exorcise the impurities that have accumulated over the past six months and to pray for good health during the remaining six months.
Held just inside the shrine’s main torii gate, this ritual sees a large gathering of people who all together pass through the reed ring while chanting a waka poem, proceeding through three times in a ritual that serves to pray for sound health.

It is the most important festival held at a shrine on a special day chosen according to the history of the shrine’s enshrined deity or the shrine’s auspicious origins.
A festival held in connection with the Honnō-ji Incident that occurred on June 2nd (July 1st according to the Gregorian calendar) in the 10th year of the Tenshō era, 1582.

The Funaoka Taisai is a festival held on the anniversary of enshrined deity Lord Nobunaga’s procession into the capital in 1568 (Eiroku 11) to tell future generations of his glorious achievements. In a grand festival that has been carried out every year since the enshrinement, representatives from the local population and Nishijin school districts gather in reverence for the Funaoka Taisai. Each year the nō plainclothes dance “Atsumori” and a bugaku dance are performed, and other offerings such as special treasure exhibitions or matchlock rifle demonstrations vary depending on the year.

Held just inside the shrine’s main torii gate, hitaki-kushi (sticks with prayers written on them) are burned in a sacred flame in a ritual that serves to pray for sound health and to ward off fire disasters.