Wood of incense flowed from the sea to Awaji Island in 595.
"Kouboku" which is the raw material of incense drifted to Japan for the first time.
Culture of incense transmitted from ancient India to the east. Since arriving in Japan, in the long history of over 1400 years, we have developed a unique Japanese incense culture that is not in the world. Knowing the history of Japanese incense culture and history, you can deepen your understanding of incense and find more attachment in your life. I will introduce you to the history of Japanese incense several times entitled "Following the history of incense in Japan".
First of all, the fragrant culture that came east from ancient India came to Japan in Buddism. Originally, as a scent of prayer for the Buddha. After that, he became one of the leaders of the beauty of the women of the Heian period, and is used for spiritual reunification in the Kamakura period. Later, she cultivated a life culture that enjoyed incense in her life, at the same time developed herself as a society and a story, a song and a story, a taste of the season, and I developed a fragrance culture as an elegant theater It was. From that era, you will be able to see the splendor of Japan and the rich culture, looking at the history of Japanese incense cultivated as a brilliant incense culture. Let's go back to history soon.
A fragrant wood drifting on Awaji Island
"Emperor Suiko 3 (595), the drifting trees that flowed to Awajishima in April burned with firewood, smelling smoke appeared.The people surprised this submitted this piece of wood to the country.
Chinsui is said to drift for the first time in Awaji Island, but it is incense. It is said that this name is attached so that it sinks deep under the water as it says that it sinks in the water.
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Marebito is a term in Orikuchiism that refers to a spiritual or deity-like being who visits from the afterworld at a specified time.
It was defined as "a strange land" where you are given a fortune, knowledge, a life, a long life, and eternal youth and immortality by a visit of marebito (a god which gives people his blessing and leaves)
A term of the Origuchi study spiritually or to define the essential existence of God that Marebito (rare person, guest) determine time and visit from the death. It is one of the most important key concepts and is made much of in folklore as a clue to investigate Japanese faith, death idea in thinking about a thought system of Shinobu Orikuchi.
The manners and customs to offer the lodgings and a meal to the visitor (stranger, Marebito) from the outside, and to welcome are seen universally in each place. The reason is economical, and a eugenic thing is included, but is said to be it when "Marebito faith" to assume a stranger God from spirit world in the root of these manners and customs exists.
The designation of "Marebito" was shown in 1929 by (1929), Shinobu Orikuchi of the folklorist. It was God and a synonym, and, as for him, "Marebito" Rare people" called "guests"and , it originally estimated that God visited it from the far-off land from folklore and a description of the Kojiki and Nihonshoki to exist in "guests". The Origuchi of Marebito theory fixes the form by "the third outbreak of the Japanese literature". According to the right article, a field work in Okinawa seemed to be the opportunity of the idea of the Marebito concept.
Because the everlastingness was the country to live, and to be granted of the departed soul, and it was thought that the ancestor who protected people from a demon lived there, ancestor's soul came over to agriculture villagers regularly every year from the land of immortal life and came to have faith to bless people. It is said that I came to be called " Marebito " because the presence was rare. It is said that deep relations with the Marebito faith are estimated as for the tray event considered to be a Buddhism event now.
Marebito God received a warm reception in a site of a religious service, but travelers to visit will be treated before long as " Marebito " by the outside. It is a youth of the villages where I attached a mask to that play the part of God coming over, or it is written down to "Manyoshu tanka collection" Eastern verse and "the Hitachi country topographical record" by the night of the festival, the outside that it was a traveler. Furthermore, because a person of entertainment of "Hokaibito" (beggar) and the sink came to be treated as " Marebito " when I fell in the times, and a warm reception for it at the same level as God was done, I enabled the existence of the play Buddhist ascetic, and it was with a faith basis to lay a young hero's adventure story (narration type that the person of the blood relationship that is KIsyuryuuritan for a trip of the wandering and overcomes a trial through hardship).
In the case of festivals to invite visit God of Marebito
God to, it was told the spirit-dwelling object of a columnar object (mustache basket, festival car) put up to descend.
It is said that the forthcoming place changed with the distance (equal to Nenaikanai of Okinawa) of the sea, the thing which I influence the mountain worship later, and come from the sky on a mountain (descendant of the Sun-Goddess advent).
I knew the actual situation of "the Marebito faith" in Japan by Masao Oka of the friend, and Alexander Slawik which was an Austrian ethnologist did a legend and manners and customs and the comparative study of "the holy visitor" in the Germanic people and Celtic people.
There is a ceremony to take water from Amami Oshima from the sea.It is a cleansing ceremony.
Its name is called Schubana.
Take water from the ocean and cast spells when you clean yourself.
Recite a word of Nanasio, Nananami, Nanahana
In addition, Mizubana is a ritual that depends on the God of the Amami archipelago and cleanses.
When taking the rituals of these two ceremonies, leave the horse to the free will of the horse and decide where to take the water. Leave it to the will of heaven.
Leaving the water ritual to the will of God, doing it in a certain place is to wear not only spirit but also spirituality.
"Mizukmi no gi =Water god 〟is a word meaning the ritual of the Japanese water god.
The theme is folklore studies of Tohoku district, Tono district of Japan I made music from a compiled book, Tono Monogatari.
A story depicting the anecdotes and traditions that were conveyed to the Tohoku area of Iwate prefecture of Mr. Kunio Yanagida (Meiji 43) announced in 1910 in Meiji 43. It was written by Mr. Yanagida, published by Mr. Kizen Sasaki and Mr. Yanagida "NotinokariKotobanoki" (1909), It complies with Yanagida Kunio's early trilogy "Ishigami Mondou" (1910).
It is also called pioneer of Japanese folklore studies.
In Yanagida, folk collector Sasaki talked about the tradition of the Tono district, Yanagida summarized it.
The contents of Tono range from Japanese traditions that took place in the Tono district, Mayoiga, Tengu, Mysterious disappearance , customs about God, events related to events.