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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
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Tsuina sai
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"Exorcism festival." Many shrines traditionally hold a "festival to drive away evil spirits" (tsuina sai) around setsubun. A bean-pounding rite is held on January 7 at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Soy beans and "demon-beating beans" (oniuchimame) roasted in oak leaves are scattered about that evening and the exorcisms performed at the main shrine as well as the auxiliary (sessha) and branch (massha) shrines. The presentations of ochikaranogozen (a type of food offering) made every day since New Year's also ends this day, and assemblages comprised of Japanese angelica trees (Aralia elata) bound with branches of Chinese arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis) are placed at every buildings on the shrine grounds (keidai).
A tsuina sai is also held January 2 at Samukawa Shrine in Samukawa Township, Kōza District, Kanagawa Prefecture. Ceremonial activities begin at 8 p.m. with the extinguishing of lights. People wearing helmets and armed with swords and clubs advance to the hall of worship (haiden), where each person beats a "demon-exorcising board" (tsuina ita) with their club several hundred times. They then go out the shrine's main gate (shinmon) and sprinkle salt water to the east and west, a ritual known as kiyosaki. Next comes the recitation of the "enumeration of treasures" (hōmotsu kazoe). The priests then enter through the main gate beating drums. They circle the sanctuary (honden) three times and offer formal prayers (hairei), after which the lights are illuminated. After the ceremony ends, 128 "Amenokagu" bows made from willow and 128 "Amenohaha" arrows (the names come from Kojiki) made from cogon grass (kaya) are distributed to the worshippers.
— Mogi Sakae

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