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The Awashima Shrine (淡嶋神社, Awashima-jinja) is a Shinto shrine in Kada District of Wakayama City.
On February 8th Hari-kuyō matsuri (針祭, broken needle festival) is held there. [1], but the shrine is best known for its March 3rd festival, Hina nagashi, during Hina matsuri [2] .
Sanctuary Deities
change- Okuninushi ;
- Sukunahikona no mikoto, a god of medicine, particularly gynecology and childbirth [3] ;
- Empress Jingū ;
- Awashima no kami (淡島神) , another god specialized in women's illnesses [4] .
Hari-kuyō matsuri
changeDuring Hari-kuyō matsuri, on February 8th, used, rusty or broken needles, brought from all over Japan, are symbolically buried in the Awashima shrine, under a large rock, after being covered with salt . It's an opportunity to thank these everyday objects for having served well.
Religious service for dolls
changeThe shrine is known for the funeral ceremony it offers to old dolls before cremating them. Anyone can leave their old dolls and leave money to pay for the ceremony [5] .
People would act in this way for fear of disturbing the spirits that would live in these objects, the dolls being considered as intermediaries between the real world and that of the spirits [6] .
In 2011, for example, the sanctuary received a thousand dolls [6] . As a result, several thousand dolls and figurines can be seen lined up in the sanctuary [6] .
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Lines of dolls at the Awashima-jinja shrine. -
Lineups of figurines at the Awashima-jinja shrine.
On March 3rd, the dolls are piled onto portable altar boats and allowed to drift on the sea. [3]
Notes and references
change- ↑ William Shurtleff et Akiko Aoyagi (2013). History of Tofu and Tofu Products (965 CE to 2013). Soyinfo Center. p. 643.
{{cite book}}: More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help). Les auteurs citent l'ouvrage de H. S. K. Yamaguchi (1934). We Japanese. Yokohama: Yamagata Press. p. 160.. - ↑ Brian Bocking, A Popular Dictionary of Shinto, 1997, p. 41.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Awashima-jinja Shrine (淡嶋神社)". mysecretwakayama.com. Retrieved 11-2-2022.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help). - ↑ Arne Kalland, Facing the Spirits: Illness and Healing in a Japanese Community, 1991, p. 15.
- ↑ Michitaka Suzuki, Hibutsu (Hidden Buddha). Living Images in Japan and the Orthodox Icons, 岡山大学文学部プロジェクト研究報告書 17, 2011, p. 5-24.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Darren Jon Ashmore, The Authenticity of the Other. The Kuiraishi-no-ki and Japanese Ritual Puppet Theatre, ejcjs, volume 13, numéro 3 (Article 14 en 2013).
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Other websites
change- "Awashima jinja, le sanctuaire des poupées à Wakayama [淡島神社]". japan-experience.com. 13-6-2018. Retrieved 11-2-2022.
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