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Hatsukaesai |
Festival of the twentieth-day gathering. Held from April 1 to April 5 at Asama Shrine in Miyagasaki District, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The festival is so named because it was originally held on the twentieth day of the second lunar month. Festival floats ( dashi ) and port... |
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Hatsuyuki matsuri |
A refined observance carried out on the first day of snow, at Kitano Tenmangū Shrine, in Kamigyō ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. According to a local legend, the spirit of Sugawara Michizane, a Heian-period courtier enshrined at Kitano Tenmangū as Tenjin, occasionally reveal... |
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Haya-uma matsuri |
Fast Horse Festival. A festival held in the hope of ensuring an abundance of livestock. Held on the vernal equinox at Ukemochi Shrine, on the grounds of Nitta Shrine ( Nitta jinja ) in Miyauchi Town, Sendai City, Kagoshima Prefecture. Ritual wands ( gohei ) and papier-mache drums ( den... |
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Hayama shinji |
A divination rite ( toshiura ) predicting the fish catch in the coming year, held at Shishiki Shrine in Higashi Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, on November 19 and 20. A competition is held in front of the shrine between two teams of three young men each. The teams try to be the fir... |
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Hayama-gomori |
Retreat at Hayama. A festival held between the fifteenth and the eighteenth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar at Kuronuma Shrine, Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture. According to a local legend, a long time ago, when the nearby hamlet of Kanisawa was being attacked b... |
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Hi no mai shinji |
Fire Dance Rite. A rite featuring a fire-throwing performance, held on November 20 at Kita Shrine in Kushima City, Miyazaki Prefecture. Dancers are selected from among young parishioners ( ujiko ) and observe a period of strict abstinence ( kessai ) and purification by using a separ... |
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Hi-awase shinji |
Fire-Matching Rite. A festival held on July 14 at Chōkaizan Ōmonoimi Shrine ( Chōkaizan Ōmonoimi jinja ) in Yuza Town, Akumi District, Yamagata Prefecture. Fires are lit simultaneously at Ōmonoimi Shrine, at Omonoimi Shrine in Tobishima, Sakata City and near the top of Mt. Chōkai a... |
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Hi-kae shinji |
Fire-Exchange Rite. Held from the night of July 31 through August 1 at Sumiyoshi Shrine ( Sumiyoshi taisha ) in Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. The festival starts with the summer purification ceremonies ( nagoshi no harae ) held on the thirty-first. On August 1, the po... |
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Hi-kiri shinji |
Fire-Kindling Rite. Held on the night of November 23, at Kanasana Shrine ( Kanasana jinja ) in Kamikawa Town, Kodama District, Saitama Prefecture. In the dark, a sacred fire is kindled using traditional methods (e.g. striking flints, rubbing tinder etc.). A rite carried out with th... |
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Hi-no-mai matsuri |
Fire Dance Festival. A festival held on February 7 at Yatsukaho Shrine, an auxiliary shrine ( massha ) of Toga Shrine ( Toga jinja ) in Ichinomiya Town, Hoi District, Aichi Prefecture. In the shrine precincts ( keidai ) a garden fire ( niwabi ) is lit and, after the intonation of ritual in... |
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Hi-taki no shinji |
Bonfire Rite. A ritual with a long tradition, held at Shimomiya Shrine, an auxiliary shrine ( sessha ) of Aso Shrine ( Aso jinja ) in Ichinomiya City, Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture. It is said that the origins of Shimomiya Shrine go back to the times when the divinity of Aso, lamenti... |
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Hiburi shinji |
Fire-Waving Rite. Held at the San-no-Miya of Aso Shrine in the town of Ichinomiya, Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture, this rite marks the sacred marriage between the enshrined deity Toshinegami, who is the deity of rice, and Hime-gozen. In mid- to late March, on a saru (monkey) day i... |
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Hie matsuri |
Festival held April 12-15 at Hiyoshi—the characters for hiyoshi may also be read as hie —Shrine in Sakamoto, Ōtsu Cty, Shiga Prefecture. On March 1, the palanquins ( mikoshi , see shin'yo ) of two auxiliary shrines ( sessha ), Ushiogu and Sannomiyagu, are carried up to the shrines' hal... |
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Hikiai-mochi shinji |
"Tug-of-war over mochi rite." A rite at the Hachiman Shrine in Gose City, Nara Prefecture, held on the ninth day of the ninth month of the old lunar calendar. Six large round cakes of mochi are placed in straw bags called kogutsu . The kogutsu are tightly bound with cords and p... |
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Hikime shinji |
"Whistling arrow rite." Held on February 4 at the Chūgūshi shrine attached to Futara-san Shrine in Nikkō City, Tochigi Prefecture, this archery ritual is meant to dispel demons at setsubun . Following the ceremony, prayers for the protection of the nation are read while ... |
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Hikimen Gokitō |
"Whistling invocations." An archery rite held at the shrine Fūrō-gū in Ōkawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture, from the twenty-eight day of the third month to the second day of the fourth month of the old lunar calendar. Shrine officials ( shinshoku ) take up bows and arrows refer... |
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Himuro matsuri |
"Ice storehouse festival." This rite is held from the night of May 31 to early morning on June 1 at Yatsushiro Shrine in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture. Newlyweds, individuals born in an inauspicious year ( yakudoshi ), and those celebrating their sixtieth birthd... |
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Hinerikiri matsuri |
"Pinching festival." A buttock-pinching festival held August 21-22 at Ukishima Shrine in the town of Tabuse, Kumage District, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The festival is so-named because women who visit the shrine have their buttocks pinched. It is said that getting pinc... |
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Hinkoko matsuri |
A festival held on April 15 at Ōyada Shrine in Mino City, Gifu Prefecture. Hinkoko means doll. Thirty two-meter-tall dolls are woven from bamboo representing Susanoo and peasants, and another doll is made of the great serpent Orochi (see Yamatanoorochi). At night, the dolls drive O... |
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Hitotsuyama Shinji |
Single Mountain Rite. A festival held every twenty years at Iwa Shrine ( Iwa jinja ) in Ichinomiya Town, Shisō County, Hyōgo Prefecture. The festival is to worship Mt. Miya which is said to be tomb of the enshrined deity ( saijin ) Ōnamuchi-no-mikoto. Further, every sixty years there i... |
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