...During the training period, they learn sutras, prayers for the Great Purification, and fortune telling using divination sticks, and through the kami-uke ceremony, a kind of divine marriage, they become aware of their guardian deity or Buddha and become independent. Itako are known for summoning Hotoke (dead spirits), and the Jizobon festivals and Jizo-ko festivals in Osorezan on the Shimokita Peninsula and Kawakura in Kanagi Town on the Tsugaru Peninsula are known as Itakomachi, and attract many Itako. In spring and autumn, they also hold Oshirasama, a deity enshrined in the village's old family line, in both hands and dance while reciting Oshirasama rites.... From 【Blind Person】... In the Tohoku region, blind shrine maidens called Itako, Ichiko, Waka, etc. performed the duties of spirit possession, incantations, fortune telling, and reciting rituals for the health of the household by turning Oshira dolls. Spirit possession was a shaman function that summoned the dead by being possessed by a god, making them speak their grudges, and calming the raging spirits. Traces of this can still be seen today at Osorezan in Shimokita and at the Itakomachi festival of Jizobon in Kawakura, Tsugaru. On the other hand, many of their husbands, Bosama (blind men), wove Tohoku legends into the story of Yoshitsune. ... *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Itakomachi" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…修業期間には,経文,大祓の祈禱,筮竹(ぜいちく)による占いなどを習得し,一種の神婚であるカミ憑ケの儀式により自らの守護神・仏を感得し,独立する。イタコはホトケ(死霊)の口寄せをすることに特徴があり,下北半島恐山,津軽半島金木町川倉の地蔵盆や地蔵講はイタコマチと称されて多くのイタコが集まる。また,春秋にはオシラアソバセと称し,村の旧家筋にまつられているオシラサマを両手に持ち,オシラ祭文を語りながら舞わせる。… 【盲人】より… 東北地方ではいたこ,イチコ,ワカなどと呼ばれる盲目の巫女が口寄せや加持祈禱,占いを業とし,オシラ人形を回して家内息災の祭文を唱えていた。口寄せは神がかりして死者を呼び出し,その怨念を語らせ荒ぶる死霊を鎮葬するシャーマンとしての機能であり,今も下北の恐山(おそれざん)や津軽川倉の地蔵盆のイタコマチにその跡をとどめている。他方,多く彼女たちの夫であったボサマ(盲人)は東北の伝説を織りまぜて義経の物語を育て上げる。… ※「イタコマチ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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