Mikoshi

A mikoshi (Jap.神 舆, also: Shin'yo, literally " palanquin gods " ;御 舆, also: Omikoshi, dt as: " venerable litter " ) is a portable Shinto shrine (or litter ), in which the Kami travel by means of a stored in the mikoshi Shintai.

He has a curved, ornate roof. For Matsuri, Japanese folk festivals, he is worn by young men and women with the aid of two horizontal stringers. The support brace themselves under the beams and wear it with loud, rhythmic call through the streets. In some areas of Japan, the carrier even wade into the sea, to ask for a good catch.

In some festivals such as the honing of the Matsuri shrine is swung from the carriers wildly. There are also depending on the hard rules for the carrier - Matsuri in honing the mikoshi is carried example of 42 -year-old men in white clothing.

During the matsuri mikoshi, provided they are not being worn, kept in a special shrine, an O- tabisho. This should have been even more significant long ago as the respective main shrines.