祭概要

盛大な御神火で、年神様をお送りする！国宝・大崎八幡宮で、正月飾りを焼納

See off the god of the incoming year with grand sacred flames!
Give New Year’s decorations as an offering as they are burned at Osaki Hachiman Shrine, which is a national treasure.

宮城県を中心に、多くの神社などで行われる正月送りの行事「どんと祭」。なかでも約300年の歴史を有し、壮大な規模で知られるのが、国宝・大崎八幡宮の「松焚祭」です。1月14日の日没頃、境内の一角で忌火（いみび）を点火し、近隣から持ち寄られた正月飾りや古神札などを焚き上げます。この火は、正月の間に各家庭に訪れていた神々を送る御神火とされ、当たると心身が清められて無病息災・家内安全の加護を得られると言い伝えられています。

白鉢巻・白さらしを巻いた数千人が、市内各所から御神火を目指して参拝する「裸参り」は、仙台市の冬の風物詩です。

Donto Sai festivals are a ritual where New Year’s decorations are taken down at many shrines centering on Miyagi Prefecture. The Matsutaki Festival is held at Osaki Hachiman Shrine, which is a national treasure, and is known for its history of roughly 300 years and its impressive scale. A fire used to cook offerings is lit in one area of the grounds at around sunset on January 14 for burning New Year’s decorations and old amulets brought in from nearby. This fire is seen as a sacred fire for seeing off the gods that visit homes during the new year, and is said to bless those who are exposed to it with a pure body and soul as well as good health and family safety.

The heading off to sacred fires all over the city by thousands of worshipers that are nearly nude, wearing white headbands and white stomach wraps, is a winter tradition of Sendai City.

大崎八幡宮
Osaki Hachiman Shrine (022-234-3606)

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