Kinen-sai

Kinen-sai (祈年祭; also read Toshigoi-no-matsuri)[1] is a Shinto celebration held to pray for a bountiful rice harvest originally developed in the 8th and 9th centuries which died out during the Muromachi period and was then reintroduced in 1869.[1] While the celebration is originally thought to be agricultural in nature, earliest records show a wide variety of non-rice offerings.[2]

Citations

  1. 1 2 Fujimori, Kaoru. "Kinensai". Kokugakuin University encyclopedia of shinto. Archived from the original on 2023-03-14. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  2. ↑ Breen 2010, p. 33.

References

  • Breen, John; Teeuwen, Mark (2010). A new history of Shinto. Blackwell brief histories of religion series. Chichester Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-5515-1.
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