

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Gantan-E (New Year Service) ; Hyakunin Isshu 百人一首 "One hundred  people, one poem each"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 11:00 am
- **Event Description**: The main New Year ceremony in Nichiren Shu Buddhism is the Gantan-e (New Years' Service) held on or after January 1st to show respect to the Buddha, Nichiren Shonin, and ancestors. During this service, followers express gratitude for the past year and pray for world peace, good harvests, and prosperity in the new year. Many temples also serve a special medicinal sake after the ceremony. 

After service we will play in English:
Hyakunin Isshu 百人一首 "One hundred 
people, one poem each" There is another very popular traditional New Year's game, which, rather than having a significantly auspicious symbolism (though I would suggest that it might), is a surprising celebration of Japan's classical culture - specifically its poetry - in which the players must familiarize 
themselves (and in many cases memorize) one hundred poems of 
varying degrees of complexity and difficulty.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/north-tonawanda/gantan-e-new-year-service-;-hyakunin-isshu-百人一首-one-hundred-people-one-poem-each/200029326077437
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029326077437?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=north+tonawanda-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: North Tonawanda
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1400 Ruie St. , North Tonawanda, NY, United States, New York 14120
- **lat**: 43.06441
- **long**: -78.86079
- **full address**: 1400 Ruie St. , North Tonawanda, NY, United States, New York 14120

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Buffalo Ro-O-Zan Enkyoji Buddhist Temple (https://allevents.in/org/buffalo-ro-o-zan-enkyoji-buddhist-temple/27211643)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 11:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1400 Ruie St. , North Tonawanda, NY, United States, New York 14120
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Buffalo Ro-O-Zan Enkyoji Buddhist Temple
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Gantan-E (New Year Service) ; Hyakunin Isshu 百人一首 "One hundred  people, one poem each" ?
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