Otonashi Shrine - Otonashi Shrine

…Men and women would sleep together in houses along the road, waiting for the crossing, and since sexual acts were also performed, it was also called the Seed-Moray Festival. The annual festival on November 10th at Otonashi Shrine in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture, known as the Shiritsumi Festival, is held in the dark, and is named after the signal given by pinching the buttocks when passing around a cup of sacred sake. Sanro, commonly called okomori, is a custom in which monks and others would retreat to a temple and pray to the gods and Buddhas, and began between the end of the 9th century and the 10th century. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Otonashi Shrine" is listed below.

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…沿道の家々では男女が雑魚寝してお渡りを待ち，性的な行いも伴うので，種もらい祭ともいわれた。静岡県伊東市の音無神社の尻摘（しりつみ）祭として知られる11月10日の例祭は，暗やみのなかで祭典が行われ，神酒の杯を回すときに尻をつねって合図するのでこの名がある。一般におこもりとよばれるれる参籠は，修行僧などが堂宇にこもって神仏に祈願をこめる風習で，9世紀末から10世紀にかけて始まった。…

※「音無神社」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。

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