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With the Naritasan Gion festival

It is Buddha as the prime noumenon of the principal idol "Acala" of the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, and the Naritasan Gion festival (ぎおんえ) is a religious festival of the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple praying "Dainichi Buddha" made 奉安 in 新勝寺奥之院 for the request for rich harvest, all the people Toyosuke's raku ware, place accomplishment.

During a period of the Naritasan Gion festival, there is the event that opens it in particular, and is held only during a period of the Gion festival such as the heaven Grass-Mowing Sword incantation of Naritasan Okunoin, and much visits the prayer.
Would you like to pray at a prayer spot only by the Naritasan Gion festival while hearing the tone of the musical accompaniment in the distance?

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With the Naritasan Gion festival About Okunoin About 天国之宝剣

About a mikoshi About guard About an honorific title of a Japanese god mountain

With the Naritasan Gion festival

The Naritasan Gion festival has history of 300 years.
The Gion festival was held as a festival led by Mount Yudono honorific title of a Japanese god company to manage in Naritasan (ゆどのさんごんげんしゃ) in the Edo era.

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Mount Yudono honorific title of a Japanese god shrine is the small small shrine in the corner of the open space called the honorific title of a Japanese god mountain which there is beside current JR Narita Station east exit police box and descends from Mount Yudono which is one of Dewa Sanzan in distance Yamagata.

The Gion festival is old, and it is associated with a historical fact held as a festival of Mount Yudono that the next morning, a mikoshi and all festival cars, stands which a mikoshi stayed overnight at as a resting place for a portable shrine (おたびしょ) in honorific title of a Japanese god company in the Gion festival opening night gather in honorific title of a Japanese god Corporation, and a dance is performed all-out.

And I moved to a festival of the Dainichi Buddha with the change of the times, and it was old, and handspike held a sacred image of the Dainichi Buddha, and 渡御 (とぎょ) was doing each town.
Naritasan and 9 ten neighboring gorgeous festival cars, stands in the town block in total go round in addition today around an approach to a shrine continuing to Naritasan with a good shout of a tone and the energy of the lively musical accompaniment with 渡御 of the mikoshi of the Naritasan which assumed Dainichi Buddha a sacred image for three days when Narita Gion Festival is held.
During a period of the Narita Gion Festival, the town of Narita is tainted with one color of festival mood and is wrapped in a shout and the heat of young people.

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About Okunoin

Dainichi Buddha (Buddha as the prime noumenon of the Acala) is laid in state in Okunoin behind the light temple in that in 11.15m in depth, 1.65m in height among cliff faces, a cave of 1.41m in width.

It is a closed Okunoin door, but a door opens only during a period of the Narita Gion festival and can usually see Dainichi Buddha of the treasured Buddhist statue firmly.

Dainichi Buddha lighted up to the candle of the candle in a gloomy small shrine darkly.
The expression of the face fades to the flow of the flare and will be to feel a mysterious atmosphere.
How about coming by all means at this opportunity?

Okunoin is opened in particular

  • Friday, July 7 from 5:30 to 20:00
    Saturday, July 8, 9th Sunday from 5:30 to 22:00
  • A place: In Okunoin (the back of the light temple)

 

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About heaven Grass-Mowing Sword (あまくにのほうけん)

At Rebellion of Taira Masakado in the middle of the Heian era, the emperor Emperor Suzaku of time sent the military of the Masakado subjugation to the eastern country and gave a secret Imperial edict of 護摩奉修 to quiet a revolt to 寛朝大僧正 where it was the father of the Naritasan founding later.

Sacred treasure granted than the Emperor Suzaku is informed it with the Acala who is a principal idol of the current Naritasan and sword for self-protection of the Emperor, heaven Grass-Mowing Sword (あまくにのほうけん) on this occasion.

Expectation is broken, and a Grass-Mowing Sword put in the bag of the cloth of gold prays the body of the person of prayer for a perfect state of health by the hand of the priest.

As it is only at a period of the Gion festival at an opportunity to mention sacred treasure of the Naritasan first having miraculous powers directly, it is experienced by all means, and how?

Heaven Grass-Mowing Sword incantation

  • From Friday, July 7 to 9th Sunday from 8:00 to 16:00
  • A place: The light temple

 

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About a mikoshi

A mikoshi carried on the shoulder by the Gion festival is a mikoshi of the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple which assumed Dainichi Buddha a sacred image.

It was a mikoshi turn in the circumference that temple town 7 mosquito-cho paid, and the young man in each town carried it on the shoulder in old days. However, the bearer of the mikoshi came to be short year by year with each town, and the staff and a volunteer of the Naritasan came to carry it on their shoulder from 1920.

The mikoshi carried on the shoulder is actually enshrined in the mikoshi storehouse of Kiyotaki Gongendo (せいりゅうごんげんどう) in the Okunoin side in a time of peace and can see this mikoshi only at the time of the Gion festival holding by the Gion festival.

The regular route list (PDF: 6,653KB)

 

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About guard

Child taking part in a festive procession party of the guard that made up prior to a mikoshi by the regular route which a mikoshi parades around goes round.
(in 2023 Saiwaicho) equal to the turn town in the town block is in charge of this guard turn in the next year.

The children who are younger than a primary schoolchild have a stick to a ceremonial robe worn by a samurai under the kamishimo hakama (のしめばかま) and, in the pretty dress which carried a flower shade on its back, act as the whiffler of the mikoshi.

It is said to plain silk cloth that it was prevalent with the design of the kimono which wove a checked pattern and a lateral stripe around the point and the waist of the sleeve in the Edo era with the ceremonial robe worn by a samurai under the kamishimo.

I stop by in each town, and the clothes of the child taking part in a festive procession vary now, too.
The child taking part in a festive procession dressed in the kimono with the crest in the town block is frequent in a plain hakama.

Guard service table (PDF: 64KB)

 

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About an honorific title of a Japanese god mountain

On the first day of the Gion festival, the mikoshi with the Dainichi Buddha parades around the old town of Narita and stays overnight at Mount Yudono honorific title of a Japanese god Corporation of the JR Narita Station side (ゆどのさんごんげんしゃ) incognito at night.

In morning of Gion festival Chunichi, ten festival cars, stands gather to 進発 of the mikoshi in before JR Narita Station, and a total dance is performed.

 

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