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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Ōgi matsuri
Text
"Fan festival." A summer festival held July 14 at Kumano Nachi Shrine in Nachi-katsuura Township, Higashi Muro District, Wakayama Prefecture. Twelve specially decorated portable shrines (see shin'yo) known as ōgi-mikoshi ("fan palanquins") are brought from the main shrine to Hiryū Shrine, which stands before the Nachi Falls. Because people come forth to welcome the fan palanquin with 12 large hand-held torches, the event is also known as Nachi no hi-matsuri ("Nachi fire festival"). Each fan palanquin is decorated with 32 open fans, eight mirrors, and blackberry lillies, an uncultivated plant of an iridaceous variety known in Japanese as hiōgi (the "hi" in the name plays homophonically on the "hi" in Hiryū Shrine and in hi-matsuri, while the "ōgi" is the same word for fan that gives the festival its name). Yamatomai (see bugaku) and Nachi dengaku (see saru-gaku, den-gaku) dances take place on the grounds (keidai) of the main shrine before the procession begins. After the procession, harvest dances and the like are performed before the falls.
— Mogi Sakae

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