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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Yamato bashiri
Text
"Dash of the mountain men." A rite performed on November 27 at Usobuki Hachiman Shrine in Buzen City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Before dawn, one of the deputy leaders (jikanza) from the village group in charge of festivals (miyaza) performs ablutions (misogi) and draws water from the sea at Yahiro beach. After he returns to the shrine and has offered the seawater before the altar, he pulls up three large radishes (daikon) from the nearby field called Shimabata and there erects a ritual wand (heisoku). The radishes are washed in the Iwagake River and then are offered at the altar together with white sake and black sake (shiroki, kuroki). After the ceremony has taken place, the deputy leaders dress themselves in white clothing and play the part of mountain men (yamato). They carry in their left hands sakaki with the roots and ritual wands (nusa, see ōnusa) attached and wear sacred straw belts (shime) around their waists. One also carries a hatchet at his waist. The pair clench sakaki leaves in their mouths and run silently to the seventh stone on the village border, then sit on the stone and pray. When they are finished, one makes his way to the event's overseer (raitōya) in the mountain village and the other heads for the overseerin the riverside village. They hand over their ritual wands and consume the white and black sake as well as daikon. A ceremony follows in which the role of overseer is transferred to another person.  The overseer is thought to be transformed from a kami back into a human through this ceremony. The festival banquet (naorai) is held at the overseer's house (tōya) after this.
— Mogi Sakae

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