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Hi-machi purification

日待之祓ひまちのはらひ

A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.

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English meaning and sound explanations

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.

By command of Kamurogi and Kamuromi, imperial ancestral kami in Takamagahara, we invite the great sun kami. We set the two kinds of offerings, blue-bodied and white-bodied sacred cloth, upon many stands and pile various gifts like mountains. Through repeated offerings of purification, purify and cleanse us.

Sound explanation

We worship awaiting dawn, when the morning sun rises brightly and its light shines through heaven. Many kami together, hear our wish that you guard us like unshakable rock and prolong our life.

The phrase 御太麻の倍心成就 cannot be securely interpreted from this edition. It has not been imaginatively filled in; the identifiable surrounding requests are explained.

Source text and reading aid

No Roman-letter reading is supplied for this text. Please consult the Japanese page’s edition notes; this page does not guess a pronunciation from Chinese characters.

高天原（たかまがはら）に神留座（かみとゞまりましま）す皇親（すめむつ）神漏岐（かみろぎ）神漏美（かみろみ）の命（みこと）をもつて日皇太神（ひすめおほんかみ）を奉請（おきまつ）り青體（あをと）の幣帛（みてぐら）白體（しろと）の幣帛（みてぐら）を百机（ももとりのつくゑ）に悉（ことごと）く備獻（そなへまつ）り種々（くさぐさ）の物（しな）を横山（よこやま）の如（ごと）く積足（つみたら）して百度（ももど）の置戸（おきど）をもつて祓給（はらひたま）ひ清給（きよめたま）ひて

朝日（あさひ）の豐榮（とよさか）の光照（てらす）天曉（みかげ）待奉（まちたてまつ）る祭祀（まつり）の御太麻（みぬさ）の倍心（みがこゝろ）成就（まどか）に常磐堅磐（ときはかきは）に守給（まもりたま）ひて延齡（つのるよはひ）の事（こと）を八百萬（やほよろづ）の神等（かみたち）諸共（もろとも）に所聞食（きこしめせ）と申（まう）す

Connected kami and buddhas

These connections include figures addressed, mentioned, or associated by tradition. They do not assign a universal recitation practice.

Sources and edition (1)

国立国会図書館／神誠館ほか — 神道太祓大全：神拝祝詞（1911年）第26項『日待之祓』

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