Jichinsai
A jichinsai (Japanese: 地鎮祭; also read tokoshizume no matsuri) is a Shinto ritual held to request the protection of the local kami when beginning to build new buildings from homes and office buildings to factories and universities.[1][2]
The Tsu City Shinto Groundbreaking Ceremony Case
[edit]The Tsu City Shinto Groundbreaking Ceremony Case in 1971 declared the rite secular.[3]
See also
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ↑ Reader 1991, p. 39.
- ↑ Endō, Jun. "Jichinsai". Kokugakuin Digital Museum. Retrieved 2026-07-31.
- ↑ "Details of 1971 (Gyo-Tsu) 69 | Judgments of the Supreme Court". www.courts.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
References
[edit]- Reader, Ian (1991). Religion in contemporary Japan. Honolulu (HI): University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1354-3.
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