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Summer great exorcism @ Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine
Hello everyone! It's Kazuyoshi.
In 2020, we quickly entered the second half of the year. June 30, the last day of the first half of the year, was the day of "Summer Exorcism".
"Summer Exorcism" is an event that prays for health and exorcism for the second half of the year, thanks to the fact that you were able to safely spend the first half of the year after dropping the impure (injury). It has been thought that various sins and filth will occur in daily life. So he began to perform a large exorcism to purify sins and filth in Chinowa and other places. The origin of the Chinowa is in Japanese mythology. The legend that "Susanoo-no-Mikoto gave Chinowa as a thank-you for the future of Somin, and in the future of Sumin, saved from the plague," comes from the Chinowa.
Located about a 5-minute walk from Tsukishima Station on the Yurakucho Line and Toei Oedo Line, the first time participating in the summer great exorcism at Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine, a guardian god in the Tsukishima area! About 40 people from men and women of all ages participated. First of all, write a name on a paper doll called "Katashiro", breathe in and transfer your sins and filth to this form. It is said that if you bring this to the shrine on the day of great exorcism and purify it, sins and filth will be purified.
And great exorcism ritual is over summer! After "great exorcism's congratulatory words," a felicitation that purifies the filth and disaster, I put a finely cut white paper called "Kirinusa" on my body to purify it. Finally, Mr. chief priest broke the white cloth, which purified the first half of the filthy.
On the way back, I had a red rice lunch box from Nihonbashi Benmatsu Sohonten, Japan's first catered lunch box specialty store!
I participated for the first time in "Summer Exorcism", but I feel that my body and mind have been cleaned up. The sultry days continue, but let's do our best in the second half!