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Homage to the privy guardians

拝守厠神詞かはやをまもるかみををがむことば

A prayer to kami guarding the privy, asking that faults be reconsidered and for protection through day and night.

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English meaning

About this English rendering

This site’s English rendering of the Japanese meaning guide, aligned with this edition. It is separate from the source words for recitation and is not an official liturgy. Sacred sounds are explained where possible, not given speculative literal translations. Historical beliefs, royal authority, illness and protection claims belong to the text; they are not present-day judgments, medical advice or guarantees of results.

In particular, I offer these words.

Before the kami governing the privy, I bow in reverence.

If I have committed a fault, please reconsider and hear it anew, and forgive it.

Let there be no calamity wrought by harmful beings.

By night and by day,

grant your protection and blessing:

with reverence, I offer this homage.

Source text and reading aid

Roman letters are provided for every line of this source text.

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Roman letters follow the kana displayed in this site’s Japanese reader; some readings are editorial additions documented on the Japanese page. These are a reading aid, not restored Sanskrit or a recording of a temple’s chanting. Historical spellings (such as wo, wi, we and ha used as a particle) are kept. Double vowels and repeated vowels mark the written kana; rhythm and pronunciation can differ by tradition.

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本文（ほんぶん）

辞別（ことわ）けて。

kotowakete.

厠（かはや）を掌（しら）す神等（かみたち）の御前（みまへ）を慎（つつし）み敬（ゐやま）ひ。

kahayawo shirasu kamitachino mimahewo tsutsushimi wiyamahi.

過犯（あやまちをか）す事（こと）の有（あ）るをば見直（みなほ）し聞直（ききなほ）し坐（まし）て、

ayamachiwokasu kotono aruwoba minahoshi kikinahoshi mashite,

枉物（まがもの）の禍事（まがこと）有（あ）らせず。

magamonono magakoto arasezu.

夜（よ）の守（まもり）日（ひ）の守（まもり）に、

yono mamori hino mamorini,

守（まも）り幸（さきは）へ給（たま）へと。

mamori sakihahe tamaheto.

畏（かしこ）み畏（かしこ）みも拝（をが）み奉（たてまつ）る。

kashikomi kashikomimo wogami tatematsuru.

Sources and edition (1)

国立国会図書館／内田芳兵衛 — 毎朝神拝詞記（平田篤胤編・平田鉄胤訂、1881年）・拝守厠神詞

English explanations on this page were prepared by Inori no Mori from the cited text and its Japanese explanations. They are not an official translation or a prescribed liturgy.

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