Welcome to Omatsu-sama - Welcome to Omatsu-sama

Japanese: お松様迎え - おまつさまむかえ
Welcome to Omatsu-sama - Welcome to Omatsu-sama

...After being welcomed with a new straw rope, it is left in a clean place until the day it is erected. Because it is treated with respect, called honorifics such as Omatsu-sama-mukae (Welcome to Matsusama) or Oshogatsu-sama-mukae (Welcome to New Year), and because it is not rare to see offerings made to the pine tree during the New Year, it is believed that the pine tree functions as a place where the New Year deity resides. However, in some places, sakaki, magnolia, and cypress trees are welcomed instead of pine trees....

*Some of the terminology used in relation to "Omatsu-sama welcoming" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…新わらの負い縄などで迎えてきたあとは,立てる日まで清浄な場所を選んで置いておく。このように丁重な扱いをしたり,お松様迎え,お正月様迎えなどと敬語で呼んだり,正月には松に供え物をする例の少なくないことから,この松は年神の依代(よりしろ)としての機能を持つものだと考えられている。なお,松ではなくサカキやホオノキ,ヒノキなどを迎える所もある。…

※「お松様迎え」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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