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Nachi-no-Hi Matsuri Fire Festival, performed on July 14, is the major festival of Kumano Nachi Taisha. It is a fire festival in which six-meter-high portable shrines symbolically representing the purification of the waterfall with the fires from oversized torches is laboriously carried by men dressed in white. [4]
The Kumano Kodō (熊野古道) is a series of ancient pilgrimage routes that crisscross the Kii Peninsula, the largest peninsula of Japan.These mountainous trails are used by pilgrims to the "Kumano Sanzan" (熊野三山) - the Three Grand Shrines of Kumano: Kumano Hongū Taisha (熊野本宮大社), Kumano Nachi Taisha (熊野那智大社) and Kumano Hayatama Taisha (熊野速玉大社).
The Nachi Fire Festival [4] is said to be one of Japan's three largest fire festivals. It is a part of the Kumano Nachi Shrine's annual festival and is officially called Ōgi Matsuri, or Fan Festival. This festival, held annually on July 14, is dedicated to the god in the precincts of Kumano Nachi Shrine.
Several years ago, I traversed the Kumano Kodo trail on my own spiritual quest, after having walked snippets of the Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago) in Portugal and the Via Francigena in Tuscany.
A Kumano shrine (熊野神社, Kumano Jinja) is a type of Shinto shrine which enshrines the three Kumano mountains: Hongū, Shingū, and Nachi [Kumano Gongen (熊野権現)]. [1] There are more than 3,000 Kumano shrines in Japan , and each has received its kami from another Kumano shrine through a process of propagation called bunrei ( 分霊 ...
Kumano Hongū Taisha: Kumanoimasu Jinja Kanpei Taisha Myojin Taisha: Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture: Kumano Hayatama Taisha: Kumano Hayatama Jinja Kanpei Taisha Shikinai Taisha: Shingu City, Wakayama Prefecture Kumano Nachi Taisha: Kumano Nachi Jinja Kanpei Chusha Kokushi genzaisha: Nachikatsuura Town, Higashimuro District, Wakayama ...
Kumano Taisha Shrine shares a strong connection with Izumo Taisha Shrine and the festival of Izumo Taisha begins with receiving the sacred fire, which is the essence of Kumano Taisha's deity, along with the fire-kindling tools from Kumano Taisha. These tools are also utilized in the inauguration ceremony at Izumo Taisha and are presented ...
During a matsuri (Japanese festival) involving a mikoshi, people bear the mikoshi on their shoulders by means of two, four, or (rarely) six poles. They bring the mikoshi from the shrine, carry it around the neighborhoods that worship at the shrine, and in many cases leave it in a designated area, resting on blocks called uma (horse), for a time ...