Setsubun festival

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About Setsubun Festival Saisa Line

In the Asakusa Shrine's shrine, I will go to the Setsubun festival as follows.

What is Setsubun?

「節分」とは立春の前の日をさします。そもそも節分という語は、立春だけに限らず立夏・立冬・立秋の前日をさし、四季の節目を意味していた言葉でした。つまり節分は一年に四回あったわけですが、旧暦では立春が年の始まりにあたったことから、この節目が特に重要視されて、いつしか節分といえば、立春の前日を指すようになったのです。

Setsubun will do events to excel disasters and evils, but the representative one is "bean maki". It is said that this year's event, pursuing the brewed soybean and purifying demons, while adopting the old man "Fuku inside, ogre is outside", adopted the custom of the Ming Dynasty period in the Muromachi era. In the past, it was one of the annual events in the Imperial Palace called "Maki (beaning)" "Okinawa (Okayurai)" bean maki. This ceremony to remove and eliminate the disaster by stealing away the evil spirits dressed as a pajamas (bends) gradually spread to the private sector.