08/07/2026
☀️🌻🥵"Nagoshi no Harae" is a Shinto ritual held on June 30th, marking the halfway point of the year, to purify oneself of sins and impurities accumulated over the past six months and to pray for good health and safety for the remaining half of the year.🙏⛩️
Participants pass through a large "Chinowa" (a ring made of cogon grass) set up between the main sanctuary and the worship hall while reciting a "waka" poem: "It is said that those who pass through the "chinowa" at 🎶"Towano-mori (Nagoshi no Harae suru hitowa chitose no inochi nobu to iunari"(for the Nagoshi no Harae ritual will extend their lives by a thousand years."🎼〽️
The "Chino-wa Kuguri"(Passing through the "chinowa") is a purification ritual performed during the "Nagoshi no Harae" (summer purification ceremony) in which people pass through a ring made of reeds to cleanse themselves of sins and impurities.
🌾The "Chinowa" is a ring, taller than a person, woven from "Chigaya"(cogon grass), a plant belonging to the grass family. Its origins are said to lie in the mythology of the deity Susanoo-no-Mikoto.
-no-harae -kuguri