2022.06.30
Once-a-year “Natsukoshi-Oharai” at Kanda Myojin
The “Natsukoshi-Oharae” ceremony is an annual event held at Kanda Myojin Shrine in June (Mizunashi month). The purification ceremony is an important event in which we purify our bodies by entrusting dolls with our sins and offenses that we have unknowingly committed in our daily lives, and gain great power to renew our minds and live our lives with a fresh spirit. It is also called “Natsukoshi Minazuki no Harae” (purification of the waterless moon over the summer), and was held at court in ancient times on the last day of the sixth and twelfth month of the lunar calendar. It spread to the general public, and the purification ceremony in June was especially grand. At Kanda Myojin, the Purification Ceremony is held in the precincts of the shrine in accordance with the ancient ceremony, and visitors, accompanied by priests, walk through a straw ring to purify themselves of impurities and misfortune. The shrine performs a ritual of exorcism, in which the dolls entrusted to the shrine by the worshippers, along with their sins and offenses, are washed away far out to sea.
Event SummaryOutline
| Location | Kanda Myojin 2-16-2 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo |
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| Access |
5 minutes from Ochanomizu Station on the JR Chuo and Sobu Lines, 7 minutes from Akihabara Station on the JR Keihin Tohoku and Yamanote Lines
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| Holding period | Thursday, June 30, 2022 |
| Opening Hours | Natsukoshi purification is held twice: from 11:00 a.m. and from 3:00 p.m. |
| Contact Us | 03-3254-0753 |
| Related Links | Official Site |
