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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Ōgisai
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A rite held February 1–2 at Kasuga Shrine in Kushibiki Township, Higashi-Tagawa District, Yamagata Prefecture. The deity Bonten (Skt. Brahmadeva, originally a Vedic deity appropriated at an early stage of Buddhism as the ruler of the realm of desire in which our world of Saha exists) in this festival takes the form of a large, skeletal fan and is called Ōgisama (A pun-filled appellation, ōgi is written with characters that mean "the king of paper," the word for "paper," or kami, being a homophone of that for "deity"; ōgi itself is a homophone of the word for a kind of paper fan, while sama is an honorific.). After being welcomed by the festival supervisors (tōya), Ōgisama is placed in the shrine and nō performances are held before him the whole night through. This nō is known as Kurokawa nō.
— Mogi Sakae

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