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{{Infobox holiday
The '''Watanagashi Festival''' is an annual festival in [[Hinamizawa]] and serves as a fixed point in every story of {{higurashi}}. The festival, while outwardly innocent, coincides with a series of gruesome murders that occur in Hinamizawa: [[the dam construction site murder]], [[the dam supporters' accident]], [[the priest's death]], and the [[murder of the housewife]]. It's purpose as a fixed point in ''Higurashi's'' story arcs make the Festival analogous to [[Beatrice's letter]] in {{umineko}}.
| holiday_name = Watanagashi Festival
| type = Japanese
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| official_name = Watanagashi Festival (綿流し祭)
| nickname =
| observedby = [[Hinamizawa]]
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| longtype = Cultural
| significance = Praises Hinamizawa's guardian deity [[Oyashiro-sama]]
| date = June 19
| celebrations =
| observances = Cotton drifting
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The {{nihongo|'''Watanagashi Festival'''|綿流し祭|Cotton Drifting Festival}} is an annual festival in [[Hinamizawa]] and serves as a fixed point in every story of {{higurashi}}. The festival, while outwardly innocent, coincides with a series of gruesome murders that occur in Hinamizawa: [[the dam construction site murder]], [[the dam supporters' accident]], [[the priest's death]], and the [[murder of the housewife]]. It's purpose as a fixed point in ''Higurashi's'' story arcs make the Festival analogous to [[Beatrice's letter]] in {{umineko}}.