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Nōmai shinji |
"Nō and dance rite." A festival held on February 15 at Ugan Shrine in Ikeda Town, Imadate District, Fukui Prefecture. Four den-gaku dance pieces and five Nō plays are performed at the shrine's hall of worship ( haiden ). These pieces are followed by a notto piece in which a ma... |
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Nōryōsen kōsai |
"Processional festival for boats to enjoy the summer evening cool." A rite held August 7 at Takebe Shrine in Ōtsu City, Shiga Prefecture. On August 1, a sakaki offering ceremony ( sakakitate shinji ) is held at the shrine's hall of worship ( haiden ). Following this, partic... |
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Obi matsuri |
" Obi festival." A rite of prayer for safe childbirth held once every three years from October 13-15 at Ōi Shrine in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture. A daimyō gyōretsu (the reenactment of the procession of a feudal lord) follows a shin'yo togyo (portable shrine process... |
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Obotsu-kagura |
A term used in a region that stretches from Amami to the Okinawa archipelago that refers to the other world where the kami dwell. The words obotsu and kagura have basically the same meaning and are used to form a couplet. According to the Chūzan seikan (Mirror of Chūzan, 1650) and the Oki... |
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Ofune matsuri |
"Boat festival." A festival held May 4–5 at Susukigawa Shrine in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture. The nine villages associated with the old woodlands in the area dispatch nine boats ( ofune ) for the festival, each "boat" being a wooden frame in the shape of a ... |
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Ogoku |
"Offering." A rite held late at night on October 13 at Usa Hachiman Shrine in Muya-chō, Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture. The husband, wife, and daughters from the parishoner household ( ōtō , see tōya ) charged with making the kagami mochi (pounded rice cakes used at the ... |
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Ohitsuosame shinji |
"Filled-tub rite." A rite held on the autumnal equinox at Ikemiya Shrine in Ikenoyama, Hamaoka Township, Ogasa District, Shizuoka Prefecture. On the equinoctial day, as a portable shrine procession (see shinkōsai ) makes its way to the opposite shore of Sakuragaike Po... |
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Ohoko matsuri |
"Halberd festival." A festival held from November 18-26 at Ōmiwa Shrine in Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture. Also known as Sōja Rokusho Myōjin ("the joint shrine for powerful kami from six locations"), Ōmiwa had been the shrine that collectively enshrined ... |
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Ohoshizashi shinji |
"Star pointing rite." A rite held January 11th at the Minami Ikura Hachiman Shrine in Ikurachō, Tamana City, Kumamoto Prefecture. The rite begins a period of purification for the households that oversee the shrine's festivals ( tōya ). Those households that have been se... |
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Ohyakudo |
Ohyakudo ("one hundred times"), also called hyakudo-mairi ("one-hundred-times pilgrimage"), is a form of pilgrimage to shrines and temples for the purpose of praying to kami and buddhas. The term ohyakudo refers to the act of visiting certain shrines and t... |
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Oka Kumaomi |
(1783-1851) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and Shinto priest of the late Edo period. Born on the ninth day of the third month of 1783 in the village of Kibemura, Kanoashi District in the province of Iwami (present-day Shimane Prefecture). Kumaomi was the illegitimate chil... |
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Okachōtare shinji |
"Mosquito net-hanging rite." A festival held May 7–8 at Tamura Shrine in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture. After a rite in which the kami 's spirit is transferred to a portable shrine ( shin'yo ), mosquito netting is hung over the place within the shrine where symbols of t... |
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Okagemairi |
"Thanks pilgrimages" or "blessing pilgrimages," a term referring to periodic mass pilgrimages to the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in the Edo period, undertaken against the backdrop of the spread of the Ise cult ( Ise shinkō ) from the middle ages and the gen... |
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Okao shinji |
"Chasing away evil kami rite." A rite held January 5 at Hinomisaki Shrine in Taisha Township, Hikawa District, Shimane Prefecture. Food offerings ( shinsen ) including mochi (pounded rice cakes), adzuki-bean gruel, and 12 hand-formed rice balls are presented to the ka... |
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Okayu shinji |
"Rice-gruel rites." Rites for divining the year's fortune ( toshiura ) in which rice gruel is used are performed all over Japan during koshōgatsu (the "lesser" New Year) around January 15. At Kamooya Shrine in Sakyō Ward, Kyoto, a rite takes place on January 15 ... |
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Okera matsuri |
A rite held on New Year's Eve at Yasaka Shrine in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. Okera (a kind of chrysanthemum, actratylodes japonica ) is a medicinal herb used in traditional Chinese medicine that is said to overcome the effects of poisons. In the past this rite was ... |
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Okinagatarashihime |
[Okinaga tarashihime no mikoto] (Kojiki Other names: Ōtarashihime A reference to the legendary Empress Jingū, consort of Emperor Chūai. According to Kojiki and Nihongi , during a campaign to subdue the indigenous Kumaso people, the empress received a divine oracle instructing t... |
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Okizakaru, Okitsunagisabiko, Okitsukahibera |
[Okizakaru no kami.Okitsunagisabiko no kami.Okitsukahibera no kami] (Kojiki) Kami appearing in Kojiki as Izanagi returned from the land of Yomi. As Izanagi purged himself from his pollution, he threw away the bracelets on his left arm, thus producing these three deities. The pre... |
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Okobo matsuri |
A festival held the morning of January 8 at Sakai Shrine in Shimo-sakamoto, Ōtsu City, Shiga Prefecture. Glutinous rice ( mochigome ) is collected from village families and pounded into rice cake, which is then formed into distinctively shaped rice cakes called okobo mochi . These a... |
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Okuyamatsumi |
[Okuyamatsumi no kami] (Kojiki) A kami produced from the belly of the fire deity Kagutsuchi when he was beheaded by his father Izanagi. According to Kojiki , Izanagi's wife Izanami died as the result of burns received when giving birth to the fire deity. Grieving at Izanami's death, I... |
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