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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Shichijūgo musubi matsuri
Text
"Bound seventy-five times festival."  An annual festival held September 16 at Togakushi Shrine (also known as Kuzuryū Daimyōjin) in Wara Village, Gujō District, Gifu Prefecture. On the day of the festival, two large floats known as ōyamayatai (see dashi) are decorated with mechanical dolls. The dolls on one float represent priests (kannushi, see shinshoku) while the other float carries dolls called okame ningyō that bear the faces of a plump, cheery woman (otafuku), a good luck symbol. The floatsare pulled about the village accompanying the procession for the portable shrine (shin'yo). The festival comes from a tradition that states the kami will bind (musubi) the fates of a man and a woman together seventy-five (shichijūgo) times.
— Mogi Sakae

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