Decorating the rope at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine before New Year's Day Kyoto December 28 13:52
Ahead of the New Year, at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto, new torches and gates were adorned with new shimeji ropes, preparing to welcome Hatsumode people.
At Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, where Michizane Sugawara, known as the god of learning, is adorned with a new shime rope every day on this day.
The priests displayed the towels and gates at about 50 torii gates and gates.
At the Ichino Torii gate, which is 10 meters high at the entrance, a 10-meter-long squeezing rope was pulled up with a harder string, and attached while adjusting the balance between left and right.
Also, at the “Romon”, which is decorated with a large ema depicting the “child” of next year's umbrella, three priests hold a thick shimeji rope of about 5 meters in length and hook it onto metal fittings to secure it. Was.
"I would like to greet people visiting New Year's visit to have a good year because the first New Year's holiday in New Year's Day," said Gon Nori and Kitahiko Higashikawa of Kitano Tenmangu Shrine.
At Kitano Tenmangu Shrine, New Year's Day anticipates about 600,000 worshipers, including test-takers, every day.