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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Tsukiyama shinji
Text
"Garden mound rite." This spring festival is held April 23 at Nijō no Imizu Shrine in Takaoka City, Tōyama Prefecture. Participants build a mound (tsukiyama) as a sort of "stationary stage" (sueokigata no butai) on shrine grounds (keidai). Figurines of the Four Deva Kings (heavenly protectors of Buddhism)—Jikoku, Tamon, Kōmoku, and Zōchō—are erected in front of the stage, their surroundings decorated with artificial lotus and cherry blossoms. The rite is held to welcome the kami that descend from Mt. Futagami, represented as an old man (okina) kami displayed at the center of the upper tier of the mound. There is a ceremony at the shrine's sanctuary (honden), after which three portable shrines (shin'yo) proceed to the mound for a rite that is held before the kami erected there.
— Mogi Sakae

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