With the city's famous castle as a backdrop, Himeji's Oshiro Matsuri (Castle Festival) in early August includes a parade of more than 1,000 townspeople in warrior outfits and other costumes. Shunki Reitaisai (Grand Festival of Spring), held May 17 and 18 in Nikko, is a reenactment of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu being transferred for reburial at Toshogu Shrine, with a procession of Shinto priests on horseback and some 1,000 men dressed as samurai warriors.