お参り: 28 Terms and Phrases

• お参り
• worship
• shrine visit

• 元旦には近所の神社にお参りする人が多い。
• On New Year's Day, many people visit neighborhood shrines.

• １月１日は多くの日本人が神社にお参りする日です。
• January 1st is the day when many Japanese go to shrines.

• 七柱それぞれの社（やしろ）を順に回り、縁起を呼ぶお参りがある。
• There is a way to visit shrines to get good luck by going to each of seven shrines in order.

• お参りをするときは線香は立てず、榊・米・塩・水・酒等を供える。
• When visiting a grave, you are required to offer not incense but Sakaki, rice, salt, water, sake, and so on.

• お参りの方式も献花や焼香と特に決まりは無く、自由度が高いがその分
• There are no specific rules such as Kenka and Shoko in the form of worship so it is flexible.

• 心と身体の穢れを取り除き、清浄な心でお参りする際の作法とされる。
• It is to get rid of impurities of the body and soul, so it is supposed to be a manner when praying with a pure heart.

• 毎年8月21日に催される「香の物祭」には全国の漬物業者がお参りする。
• Tsukemono traders across the country visit the shrine on the day of the 'Konomono Festival,' which is held on August 21 each year.

• この墓にお参りすると、年老いても下の世話にならないとする言い伝えがある。
• There is a legend that people visiting this tomb would not need to rely on shimo no sewa (helping out the one who can't control the movements of his or her bodily wastes) in the years of advanced age.

• 線香焼香は、日常のお参りに用いられるもので、一般には「線香を上げる」と言われる。
• Senko shoko (burning an incense stick) is done for daily praying, and is generally called 'senko o ageru (offering an incense stick).'

• 古くより三社をお参りする人が多く、この三社を結ぶ形で和歌山電鐵貴志川線が走っている。
• Many people have been visiting the three shrines through the ages, and Kishigawa Line of WAKAYAMA ELECTRIC RAILWAY Co., Ltd. is available connecting these shrines.

• 大晦日の深夜零時を境に前後にお参りすることから、2年にまたがってするため、この名がある。
• When, late on New Year's Eve, people visit a shrine at around midnight, the visit essentially straddles both the old and the new year, and thus is called the 'two-year visit.'

• 人だけでなく、乗り物、自家用車についての御祓いをしてくれ、遠方からもお参りする人が絶えない。
• They pray not only for persons, but also vehicles and private cars, so that many people constantly visit to this shrine from a distance.

• 翌15日朝に米・ナス・ダンゴ・シキビ・盆花・菓子・線香を供え，鉦を鳴らして十三仏念仏を唱えお参りする。
• In the morning of the next day (August 15), people of the area pay a visit to the jizoes by placing in front of them rice, eggplant, rice dumpling, shikibi (a special tree for Buddhist events), flowers for Bon (a Buddhist event in the summer in which each household invites its ancestors' spirit to the house), sweet stuff and incense sticks, by striking Sho (a kind of percussion) and by repeating the names of thirteen Buddha's.

• 神輿の御旅所駐輿中に、誰とも言葉を交わすことなく御旅所を七夜お参りすれば、願いが叶うというのが無言参り。
• In Mugon mairi, it is believed that one's wish will be fulfilled if one visits the otabisho seven nights without having communication with others while the mikoshi stays in the otabisho.

• 子供のお宮参りの本来はこの氏神にお参りして、その土地の一員になることを認めてもらうための儀式の一つだった。
• Omiyamairi ((the custom of) taking one's baby to a shrine) was originally one of the initiation rituals in which a baby was taken to the tutelary to ask the permission to become a member of the local community.

• 周囲の人々は神の命令に背いた罰と噂し、深く嘆いた女が神社でお詫びのお参りに行き、自分の罪と悲しみを歌に詠んだ。
• The child's disappearance was rumored by neighbors to be the reward for her disobeying the God's order, and her grief was so deep that she visited the shrine for an apology and expressed her sense of guilt and sorrow in a Japanese poem.

• 樋貝の娘はこの1回きりだと思っていたが、それから毎月の命日に欠かさず千駄ヶ谷の墓地にお参りしたことに驚いたと述べている。
• HIGAI's daughter said that she was surprised to hear that they never failed to visit the grave in Sendagaya on the date of HIGAI's death every month although she thought they would pay a visit only once.

• また三浦は、この薬師堂とは、現在地元でお参りすると母乳がよく出るようになる「寺野のちち薬師」と呼んでいるものが比定されるとしている。
• Also, MIURA said this Yakushi-do Hall was estimated to be the presently so-called 'Terano no chichiyakushi' and it was locally said that a lot of breast milk was made after visiting there.

• また、お参りは氏神様にするのが基本だが、現住所の近場の神社ですませたり、有名な大きい神社（例：明治神宮・熱田神宮）へ参拝に行く場合も有る。
• In general, it is standard for people to choose to visit the shrine of their patron Shinto god, but in some cases people instead visit a shrine closer to where they live, or choose to pay homage at a famous shrine (for example, at Meiji-jingu Shrine or Atsuta-jingu Shrine).

• その弟子は懺悔してお参りに行くと、会った人の体調が悪くなったりして誰からも相手にしてもらえず、目の前で門を閉められたことも度々あったという。
• The disciple repented his sins and visited the temple but was ignored by any followers or turned away at the door many times, because those who met him got ill.

• 単純に深夜零時頃一回一箇所の神社にお参りする場合が多いが、除夜に一度参拝して一旦家に帰り、元旦になって再び参拝するという形式をとることも有る。
• In most cases, people simply visit a single Shinto shrine just once at around midnight, but a type of ninen mairi also exists in which the person visits the shrine once on New Year's Eve and returns home temporarily, then visits the shrine again once New Year's Day dawns.

• このため、基本的に島への渡航は禁止されているが、年に数回、調査のための立ち入りが許可されることがあるほか、毎年「雄島まいり」と称して、地元住民のお参りが行われている。
• For this reason, visits to the island are largely banned; however, survey visits are allowed several times a year, and local residents also visit the island every year on the pretext of 'Oshima mairi (a visit to Oshima island).'

• 明治時代までは、春日大社の参詣者は、まず榎本神社に参拝し、柱を握り拳で何度も叩きながら（榎本の神は耳が遠いので）「春日さん、お参りました」などと言い、榎本神社の祠の周りを廻った後に本殿に参るという慣習があった。
• Up until the Meiji period, worshipers of Kasuga-taisha Shrine thought they should visit Enomoto-jinja Shrine first while beating a pillar with a fist many times (because the god of Enomoto is deaf) saying 'Kasuga-san, I have come to visit you' and go around his Hokora and then proceed to the main hall.

• 参詣の帰路、本殿を出たあと後を振り返ると、せっかく授かった智恵を返さなければならないという伝承があって狭い長い石段を降リ切った鳥居をくぐるまでは、又は渡月橋を渡り終るまでは周囲の誘いにも動じず後ろを振り向かないで貫き通す【お参りの前に子に教えておく事をすすめる】
• As there is a tradition to return the wisdom they receive if they look back after they walk out of the main hall on the way home, the children do not look back until they pass through the torii (an archway to a Shinto shrine) beyond the long and narrow stone steps, or until they cross the Togetsu-kyo Bridge even if they were told so (It is recommended to tell the children before they make the visit)

• また近江は、「アラ」は鉄の古語であるということと、山砂鉄による製鉄や、その他の鉱物採取を実態としていた修験道はアラハバキ信仰を取り入れ、「ハバキ」は山伏が神聖視する「脛巾」に通じ、アラハバキはやがて「お参りすると足が良くなる」という「足神」様に変容していったと述べている。
• Additionally, Omi explains that 'Ara' is an ancient word for iron and Shugendo (Japanese mountain asceticism-shamanism incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts), which was actually involved in iron production using mountain iron sand and collecting other minerals, incorporated Arahabaki beliefs, and 'Habaki' is related to the 'Habaki' (shin guard) which Yamabushi (a mountain priest) considers holy and therefore Arahabaki eventually transformed into a 'god of feet,' considering 'your legs get better if you worship at the shrine.'

• 明治時代初期までは恵方詣りの風習が残っていたようだが、京阪神において鉄道事業者が沿線の神社仏閣をてんでんばらばらに「今年の恵方は○○だ」と宣伝し始めたために、本来の恵方ではない神社仏閣にも詣でるようになり、恵方の意味が薄れ、有名な神社仏閣にお参りするようになったといわれている。
• It is said that, up until the early Meiji period, some still practiced the custom of ehomairi; however, as each railway company in the Keihanshin region (namely, Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe) started to advertise the shrines and temples of their choice along their own railway lines, by saying that 'the eho for the year is XX,' people became to visit those in other than the actual eho direction which leads the meaning of eho fade away and people visit well-known shrines and temples.

• 当時の主な銭湯の利用客である市井の人々には「お伊勢参り」や「金毘羅山参り」、「日光東照宮参り」 など日本各地の神社仏閣への「お参り」旅行は参詣本来の目的に加えてイベントであり娯楽であったことも鑑み、人々の平凡な日常にとって宮型造りの銭湯に足を運ぶことはいつかの「お参り」にいざなう魅力的な装置としても機能した。
• Given the fact that for ordinary people, who were main users of sento at that time, taking a trip to 'visit' temples and shrines in various regions in Japan such as 'a pilgrimage to Ise,' 'pilgrimage to Konpirasan,' 'pilgrimage to Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine,' etc., was the original purpose of visiting temples and was also an event or entertainment, shrine-shaped sento also functioned as attractions, thus leading to the eventual tradition of 'temple visiting' in later, less eventful days.