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Before the Blessing. - (blessing
photo below)
7:40 am, September 22, 2005 - Arriving at the
Sunpu Castle Gate Replica construction site at the
Luaritzen Gardens, the
miniature Mt. Fuji has been completed (cone shape) and is being covered with
grass. Also crates of the gate's posts, beams and other structure gate pieces
had been moved from the road to the gate site. The Construction Group from Japan
was visiting with "officials" from the Omaha Sister Cities Association and
the Luaritzen Gardens, as
well as unpacking the crates and doing last minute site preparation for the
Blessing Celebration.
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Shinto Blessing Celebration
Little after 9:00 am, everyone took part in a traditional Shinto BlessingBlessing
of the gate construction site. It started with the symbolic washing of the
hands. Hand washing using a wooden ladle dipped into a special hand held
container of water. Next was the throwing of rice to symbolic purify the gate
site. This was followed by the “Bow prayer” for safe work. The "Bow Prayer" (Two
bow toward alter, two fast hand clip and another bow) first officials, and
followed by various work groups. Celebration Closed with group toast.
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I have other plans for the day and was unable to stay to photograph the first day of gate construction after the Shinto Blessing Celebration. Two websites below has photos of this day construction.
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Shinto Blessing Celebration
Based on Gallery by MINO STUDIO
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Lines below bar and in description links by
Steve R. Adams
Last update on February 8th , 2006 17:30 UTC (11:30 pm CST)