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Updated: June 18, 2025
Next day the hitogata are returned to the kannushi, who, after having recited certain formulae over them, burns them with holy fire. By this ceremony it is hoped that all physical misfortunes will be averted from the family during a year. IT is the fifteenth day of the seventh month and I am in Hokii. The blanched road winds along a coast of low cliffs the coast of the Japanese Sea.
The purchaser buys one for every member of the family the priest writing upon each the age and sex of the person for whom it is intended. These hitogata are then taken home and distributed; and each person slightly rubs his body or her body with the paper, and says a little Shinto prayer.
Probably it would have been superfluous: the Japanese individual was not officially recognized; the family-group alone was responsible, and the attendance of the several members would have been assured by the responsibility of the group. The use of the hitogata, on which the name is not written, but only the sex and age of the worshipper, is probably modern, and of Chinese origin.
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