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People Carrying Shrine (Mikoshi) at Japanese Festival - Kato 24-236
- People Carrying Shrine (Mikoshi) at Japanese Festival for Kato (Dio Town) or other layouts
- Excellent quality and exquisite details
- A Mikoshi is a portable Shinto shrine in Japan.
- The Japanese people shown are seen at a typical Japanese festival.
- Set includes:
- 1x Shrine
- 16x People carrying it
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A Mikoshi is a portable Shinto shrine. Shinto followers believe that it serves as the vehicle of a divine spirit in Japan at the time of a
parade of deities. Often, the mikoshi resembles a miniature building, with pillars, walls, a roof, a veranda and a railing. Typical
shapes are rectangles, hexagons, and octagons. The body, which stands on two poles (for carrying), is usually lavishly decorated, and
the roof might hold a carving of a Phoenix.
During a matsuri, people bear a mikoshi on their shoulders by means of the two poles. They bring the mikoshi from the shrine, carry it
around the neighborhoods that worship at the shrine, and in many cases leave it in a designated area, resting on blocks, for a time
before returning it to the shrine. Some shrines have the custom of dipping the mikoshi in the water of a nearby lake, river or ocean.
At certain festivals, the people who bear the mikoshi wave it wildly from side to side, and from time to time, deaths occur when a
mikoshi strikes a bystander or participant.
A mikoshi was believed to have been first used to transport Hachiman to To-dai-ji temple from Usa Jingu in 749. (Wikipedia, 2007)
