Before the New Year, a large kadomatsu with a height of about 5 meters was erected at Oomiwa Shrine in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture.
At Oomiwa Shrine in Sakurai City, a union made by flower and planters dedicates Kadomatsu every year at this time of year.
On the 12th, in front of the "Nino Torii" of the shrine, two bases with a diameter of about 1 meter were placed, and pine trees, green bamboo, and plum trees with a height of about 5 meters were erected in them using a crane. I did.
Then, various decorations using materials from Nara prefecture, such as the branches of the southern sky with red fruits and colorful leaf buttons of white and purple, were attached, and Daimonmatsu was completed in about 3 hours.
At Ojin Shrine, following the spread of the new coronavirus infection, next year's first visit is calling for distributed worship until around February, which is the Chinese New Year.
Tokiya Matsuda, the head of the Nara Prefecture Flower Planting Agricultural Cooperative, who established Daimonmatsu, said, "I dedicated it in the hope that the new coronavirus will converge and everyone will be free from illness."