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Sumō shinji |
"Sumō rite," also known as sōmoku shinji . Sumō has long been an important element of Japanese festivals. Examples abound, such as the "sumō of the divinities" ( kamisumō ) match held at the end of Suwa Shrine's boat festival ( ofune matsuri ), or a similar event h... |
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Sumōesai |
"Sumo festival." A rite held October 13 at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. After the ceremony, an offertory sumo match is held. The festival is said to date to back to the time of the Empress Jingū (see Okinagatarashihime) and the legend... |
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Sunayama matsuri |
"Sand mountain festival." A rite held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month at Isasumi Shrine in Aizutakada Township, Ōnuma District, Fukushima Prefecture. Two mounds of sand are constructed on the shrine grounds ( keidai ) to serve as the ritual space. The shiogamaka... |
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Ta'asobi |
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Taihei shinji |
"Great ritual wand rite." A festival held June 8 at Agata Shrine and Uji Shrine 1in Uji City, Kyōto Prefecture. The ceremony this day celebrates the return of the kami of the kamisha and shimosha (mountainside or upper shrine and townside shrine, respectively; see yamami... |
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Tamakae shinji |
"Ball exchange rite." This rite is held the evening of January 15 at Kōra Shrine in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. The rite entails holding a ceremony in which a golden and a silver ball along with food offerings ( shinsen ) are presented before the altar. At 11 p.m. a perso... |
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Tamasaki jūnisha matsuri |
"Tamasaki twelve-shrine festival." A "combined shrine" ( sōsha ) festival held September 10–13 at Tamasaki Shrine in Ichinomiya Township, Chōsei District, Chiba Prefecture. The festival is also known as "the naked festival of the Ichinomiya" ... |
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Tauchimai shinji |
"Plowing dance rite." A rite held February 17 at Samukawa Shrine in Samukawa Township, Kōza District, Kanagawa Prefecture, also known as fukutanemaki ("sowing the seeds of fortune"). At the hall of worship ( haiden ), a priest ( shinshoku ) wearing the mask o... |
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Tendōsha matsuri |
"Festival of the Tendō shrine." A rite held on the first day of the horse in the sixth lunar month at Wadatsumi Shrine in Mine Township, Kamiagata District, Nagasaki Prefecture. Three young men are selected as the overseers of the year's ritual. They lead the young village... |
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Tennō matsuri |
"Heavenly king festival." A festival held on the fourth Saturday and Sunday of July at Tsushima Shrine in Tsushima City, Aichi Prefecture. Five "festival cart" boats ( danjiribune , see dashi ) are floated across on a vast pond that was once Tennō River in a cere... |
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Teppō matsuri |
"Gun festival." An annual festival ( reisai ) held on April 17 at Hozumi Shrine in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The shrine is also called Ryūsō-sama (the shrine sits at the foot of Mt. Ryūsō; see yama no kami ), a divinity that has attracted worship from hunters as the ... |
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Tezutsu shinji |
"'Pistol' festival." A rite conducted during the Gion Festival ( Gion matsuri ) held July 13–15 at Yoshida Shrine in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture. The event is also known as the Yoshida Tennō Festival and has been well known along Japan's famed Tōkaidō ("easter... |
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Toshishiba no shinji |
A rite held January 6 at Sunami Shrine in Sakutō Township, Aida District, Okayama Prefecture. The priest attaches packets of rice and beans wrapped in Japanese paper ( washi ) to small branches of sakaki . The branches are then bundled into groups of three and offered to the altar as a pr... |
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Tsuina sai |
"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... |
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Tsuina shiki |
"Exorcism ceremony." A setsubun event held in February at Nagata Shrine in Nagata Ward, Kobe City, Hyōgo Prefecture. Artificial flower arrangements ( kazaribana ) made by hanging small rice cakes and mandarin oranges from several large willow branches are strung up on ... |
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Tsukiyama shinji |
"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 F... |
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Tsutsukohiki matsuri |
" Tsutsuko tug of war festival." A festival that functions as a prayer for a bountiful harvest held on the 25th day of the first lulnar month at Itsukushima Shrine in Hobara Township, Date District, Fukushima Prefecture. Following a ceremony, all the men who are of an inaus... |
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Tōka sai |
"Peach blossom festival." A festival held April 1–3 at Masumida Shrine in Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture. The event celebrates the enshrinement of Amenoho no Akari no mikoto, the deity to whom the shrine is dedicated (see saijin ), which took place on the third day of t... |
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Tōka shinji |
"Dance music rite." A rite held January 4 at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Also called the "good-fortune mochi rite" ( fukumochi shinji ). Two people—the "bag holder" ( fukuro-mochi ) who carries a bag filled wi... |
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Tōnin gyōji |
"Ritual caretaker observance." A ritual held July 7 at Tōko Yasaka Shrine (also known as Gozu Tennō Shrine) in Tennō Township, Minimi-Akita District, Akita Prefecture. Tōko Yasaka is the tutelary shrine of both Tennō Town and Funakoshi Town in Oga City, Akita District; ... |
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