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This festival, held annually on July 14, is dedicated to the god in the precincts of Kumano Nachi Shrine. The company ACT.JT performed a dengaku dance on the terrace of Casa de Vacas in Madrid, spain [5] with the participation of ten Spanish volunteers in a cultural exchange in 2017. This event was performed within the framework of the Spain ...
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 Taisha was relocated from Mount Kumano to the foot of the mountain. Subsequently, the shrine was split into an upper and a lower section. Until the end of the Edo period, the upper shrine was called Kumano Sansha Gongen, while the lower shrine was known as Isemiya. In 1871, the shrine was designated as a middle-ranked shrine and was ...
Festival incorporating a variety of rituals and performances including a procession with a red-masked demon, drums, flutes, girls with wooden staffs, mikoshi, and men carrying decorated sake barrels. A highlight of the festival is the sasara dance consisting of 12 pieces performed by young girls in yukata and colorful hats.
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).
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 Nachi Taisha, one of the Kumano Sanzan shrines, has been a destination for pilgrims since the Heian period. The villages of Nachi and Katsuura were established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. Katsuura was raised to town status on May 1, 1908 and Nachi on August 1, 1934.