I went to the cold bathing tournament at Tetsunan Inari Shrine, a New Year's tradition in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
１） Date and time
It was carried out from 11:00 am to 11:35 am on Sunday, January 11, 2015.
２） Venue
1-6-7 Minato, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
３） Overview
It was started as a ritual of purification for sound health for one year.
It started in 1955 and this is the 60th time this year.
After Miyashi's exorcism, a careful preparatory exercise is carried out, and about 100 people in loincloths (for women, white clothing) enter the aquarium with ice pillars.
４） The significance of bathing in the cold
Every year in the beginning of the New Year, during the cold bath at the Tetsugansu Inari Shrine is a Shinto ritual that prays for sound health by bathing in cold water in front of the shrine in the New Year and performing a purification ceremony to clean the mind and body. It is a pure Japanese language that is not found in Chinese language, so it can be seen that it is a custom unique to Japan.
It is said that the 60th anniversary of the festival was revived in 2015 by local people who were saved from epidemic diseases through thin clothes and bathing in the Edo period with gratitude to guardian god.
Since it was introduced to the top in the "Water Festival" section of the Adult Metropolitan Area Walking Magazine "Walking Master Mook / Festival & Event Calendar 2009" issued by the Kotsu Shimbun in 2008, Kanto's best tradition It has gained popularity as a prestigious water festival, and the number of participants and visitors increases every year.
５） How to bathe in the cold
Nara period, who was born in Usa-gun, Oita Prefecture in 1862, revived the purification method of Mitake Shrine, located at the summit of Mt. Mitake (929m), Ome City, Tokyo. There are a number of schools, but there is no big difference, and the cold bathing performed at Tetsugansu Inari Shrine is also performed by the purification method of the river surface style under the guidance of the Tokyo Shrine Agency's Narinari Event Michihiko (Guman) and Naotsushi Shinoheikawa Shrine Miyaji. It is done.
After going out on the public road and running around the shrine, as the Tetsugunshu Hayashi played in Kagura Hall flows, they performed bird boats for preparatory exercises, entered a cool water tank with large icicles, immersed in cold water to the chest, and soaked in cold water...."I purify my mind and body while doing the soul while chanting." After the end, we will conduct a reorganization campaign with a bird boat again and finish the cold purification ceremony.
The Arido Okami is the gods responsible for the exorcism in Shinto.•The filth flows from the river to the sea.•Fast-opening Tobi Sales (Since on the Seabed)•It is the four gods of swallowing the filthyness), Ki Fukido (breathing in the root country), and Hasasurahiuri (the sins and filth brought into the root country and loses). It is also called the four gods of exorcism, and it is a thankful gods who release our sins and filth deep underground based on the same concept as the current waste disposal. Therefore, during the water line, he recites Arido Okami many times. Miyaji's felicitation "great exorcism Lyrics" in great exorcism in June and December recites the relay of sin and filth by the Oga and others, so I understand you are listening well.
The details are as follows.
1) Run around the shrine
2) Bird boat event (Torifuneiji)
3) The soul (Furitama)
4) Yuken event (Otakebigyoji)
5) Yuzume event (Okorobigyoji)
6) Kebuki event
7) Kanmisogi
Source: Information for bathing participants of the Iron Gunshu Inari Shrine Yayoikai
