Mekari shrine
The Mekari Shrine ( Japanese 和 布 刈 神社 , Mekari-jinja ) is an ancient Shinto shrine in the Moji-ku district of Kitakyūshū City in Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan. It's there in Mekari Park on the bank of Kammon Street . In it u. a. who worshiped the Kami Jimmu -tennō together with his ancestors Hiko-ho-ho-demi and Ugaya-fuki-aezu .
The foundation of the Mekari Shrine is said to go back to the legendary Jingū -kōgō in 200. Their work should also explain the origin of the Mekari ceremony ( 和 布 刈 神 事 , mekari (no) shinji ), which has been celebrated on the first day of the new year of the lunar calendar at the first ebb since the early 8th century . Three priests go into the water with torches, wooden buckets and sickles and harvest wakame in order to then offer it to the kami . This ceremony has been open to the public since the end of World War II.
Web links
- Shrine website (Japanese)
- Old photo of Mekari Shrine in the Metadata database of Japanese old photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period - English and Japanese
Coordinates: 33 ° 57 ′ 39 ″ N , 130 ° 57 ′ 44 ″ E