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Attending a miyamairi at a shrine in Tokyo. Miyamairi (宮参り, literally "shrine visit") is a traditional Shinto rite of passage in Japan for newborns. Approximately one month after birth (31 days for boys and 33 days for girls [1]), parents and grandparents bring the child to a Shinto shrine, to express gratitude to the deities for the birth of a baby and have a shrine priest pray for ...
The Nachi Fire Festival is a part of the Kumano Nachi Shrine's annual celebrations. Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of New Year 2013 00869: The word washoku (和食) is now the common word for traditional Japanese cooking. Washi, craftsmanship of traditional Japanese hand-made paper 2014 01001
The number of Shinto shrines in Japan today has been estimated at more than 150,000. [1] Single structure shrines are the most common. Shrine buildings might also include oratories (in front of main sanctuary), purification halls, offering halls called heiden (between honden and haiden), dance halls, stone or metal lanterns, fences or walls, torii and other structures. [2]
Kumano Nachi Taisha (熊野那智大社) is a Shinto shrine and part of the UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range of Japan. The Kumano Kodō route connects it to other sites under the same classification, which are primarily located in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
The legendary history of the Osaka festival states that it began in the year 951 AD, two years after the establishment of Osaka's Tenmangū Shrine. [1] The form of the boat procession had been established by the time of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (late 16th century), and during the Edo Period, the festival flourished as a symbol of Osaka's prosperity.
The mountain is also sacred in the Buddhist and Shinto traditions and there are numerous pilgrimage paths and shrines on the mountain slopes. [22] Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites: Gunma: 2014 1449; ii, iv (cultural) Tomioka Silk Mill illustrates the transition of Japan into a modern industrialized nation in the late 19th and early 20th ...
Kanda Matsuri (神田祭) or the Kanda Festival, is one of the three great Shinto festivals of Tokyo, along with the Fukagawa Matsuri and Sannō Matsuri.The festival started in the early 17th century as a celebration of Tokugawa Ieyasu's decisive victory at the battle of Sekigahara and was continued as a display of the prosperity of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period. [1]
The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period. [1] In 965, Emperor Murakami ordered that Imperial messengers were sent to report important events to the guardian kami of Japan. These heihaku were initially presented to 16 shrines including the Kifune Shrine. [2]