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Quick guide to Kinensai
Sourced or Silent · CC BY-SA 4.0Kinen-sai (祈年祭; also read Toshigoi-no-matsuri) is a Shinto celebration held to pray for a bountiful rice harvest originally developed in the 8th and 9th centuries which died out during the Muromachi period and was then reintroduced in…
01 · What it is
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02 · Where & name
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03 · How it is doing
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04 · Proof & reuse
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What is Kinensai in plain words?
Kinen-sai (祈年祭; also read Toshigoi-no-matsuri) is a Shinto celebration held to pray for a bountiful rice harvest originally developed in the 8th and 9th centuries which died out during the Muromachi period and was then reintroduced in…
Where is Kinensai practised or documented?
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What is the current condition of Kinensai today?
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The tradition & historical record
1 min read · 1 sourceKinen-sai (祈年祭; also read Toshigoi-no-matsuri) is a Shinto celebration held to pray for a bountiful rice harvest originally developed in the 8th and 9th centuries which died out during the Muromachi period and was then reintroduced in 1869. While the celebration is originally thought to be agricultural in nature, earliest records show a wide variety of non-rice offerings.
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Kinensai is Japanese festival, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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