Shimenawa (sacred rope) - Shimenawa

Japanese: しめ縄(注連縄) - しめなわ
Shimenawa (sacred rope) - Shimenawa
A rope that limits sacred places such as shrines and prevents the intrusion of impurities. It is also written as Shimenawa or Shichigosannawa. In the Kojiki and Nihonshoki, it is written as "Shirikumenawa" and "Shirikuhenawa." The word shime is already used in poems from the Manyoshu to mean occupying and isolating a certain area, and in addition to "shikoroshi," it is written as "in" (seal) and "rope." Shime is a sign of occupation (occupation), and the presence of the sign (shime) indicates the state of occupation. Shimenawa stretched over sacred areas is, so to speak, a sign that marks the god's "barrier occupying area."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
神域など神聖な場所を限って不浄悪穢の侵入を防ぐ縄。標縄,七五三縄とも書く。記紀では〈尻久米縄(しりくめなわ)〉〈端出之縄(しりくへなわ)〉と書かれている。《万葉集》の歌にも,一定の区域を占有・隔離する意味でシメという言葉がすでに用いられており,〈標〉のほかに〈印〉〈縄〉などの文字が当てられている。シメは占め(占有)の印であり,印(しめ)のあることによって占有の状態を示したものである。神域に張られたしめ縄は,いわば神の〈結界占地〉を標示するものとなっている。

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