shime-nawa

Updated: May 11, 2025

*These two are the ancestors of the Kami of the Nakatomi and the Imibe hereditary corporations, who may be described as the high priests of the indigenous cult of Japan. This kind of rope called shime-nawa, an abbreviation of shiri-kume-nawa may be seen festooning the portals of any Shinto shrine.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era