Harvest festival at Ise Grand Shrine.
Tagged: Shinto
Dates
| Year | Dates | Reckoning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | October 15–17, 2025 | Principal day Oct 17. Offerings at the Outer Shrine on Oct 15-16 and at the Inner Shrine on Oct 16-17. | |
| 2026 | October 15–17, 2026 | Principal day Oct 17. Offerings at the Outer Shrine on Oct 15-16 and at the Inner Shrine on Oct 16-17. |
Recurrence: Gregorian fixed dates (Oct 15-17; the principal day, Oct 17, has been fixed since 1879).
Significance
The harvest festival at Ise Grand Shrine.
The Traditions
Related Across the Site
- Sanja Matsuri Calendar Event — Tokyo's largest Shinto festival; Asakusa Shrine.
- Jinja Mairi — Visiting the Shrine Devotion — To visit a shrine is to call on the kami of the place: through the torii, up the gravel path, to the offering box, the bell, two bows, two claps, one bow.
- Misogi — Purification by Water Devotion — Standing under a waterfall, or in the sea or a river at dawn, the practitioner lets cold water carry away pollution: Shinto's most austere devotion.
- The Kamidana — Household Altar Devotion — High on a wall of the home sits a miniature shrine: each morning it receives fresh water, rice, salt, and a bowed head with two claps.
- Classical Japanese Language — The classical written language of Japan, in which the norito prayers and the early chronicles are composed.
- Norito Prayer or Creed — Formal ritual prayers in classical Japanese, recited by priests to the kami at shrine festivals and rites.
- Nuclear power Technology — The reactor judged apart from the bomb: prudence, waste, and descendants on one side of the ledger, decarbonization arithmetic on the other — and no magisterium with a binding word.
- Shinto Tradition & Science — A tradition without a creed for science to contradict: kami in the landscape, a shrine rebuilt on schedule for thirteen centuries as a living school of craft, and modern flashpoints in nuclear pollution and the definition of death.