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カテゴリー1： 5. Rites and Festivals
カテゴリー2： Individual Shrine Observances
Title
Saikusa matsuri
Text
"Saikusa festival." A rite held on June 17 at Isakawa Shrine, an auxiliary (sessha) of Ōmiya Shrine, in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. The ceremony begins at around ten in the morning. Four female shrine attendants (miko) perform an offertorial dance using saikusa no hana—a flower related to a lily that grows wild on Mt. Miwa— as props (torimono). The rite is also known as the "lily festival" (yuri matsuri) because sake casks are filled with mountainous heaps of lilies and offered before the altar to the kami. The present ritual was revived during the 10th year of the Meiji period (1878), but the origins of the ritual are ancient with references made to it in both the Jingiryō and the Engishiki.
— Mogi Sakae

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