Read, reflect, pray

Words of sending off

送納要文そうなふのえうもん

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

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.

I address the heavenly and earthly deities whose very names inspire awe, and all the deities who have descended here.

We now send you back to your original sacred dwellings. With reverence, please accept this farewell.

We respectfully send the deities home to their palaces, to rest again within their shrines.

May every blessing of heaven arrive, may the blessings of earth abound, and may the power of the divine way protect us and fulfill our wishes.

Thus, with renewed reverence, I offer these words asking for blessing.

Source text and reading aid

Roman letters are provided for 4 of 5 lines. Readings not fully supplied in the source are left without Roman letters.

How to use the Roman letters

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.

You can simply read the meaning or sit quietly. No recitation is required. For a temple or shrine’s own recitation, follow that tradition’s published guidance.

掛（かけ）まくも賢（かしこ）き天神地祇（てんじんぢぎ）爰（こゝ）に降臨（かうりん）一切（いつさい）の諸神（しよじん）等（とう）

元（もと）の本宮（ほんぐう）へおくり奉（たてまつ）る恐（おそれ）ながら承引給（うけひきたま）へ

motono honguuheokuri tatematsuru osorenagara ukehikitamahe

送納歸宮住社（そうのうきぐうぢゆうしや）敬白（うやまつてまうす）

sounoukiguujiyuushiya uyamatsutemausu

天福皆來（てんふくかいらい）地福圓滿（ちふくゑんまん）神道神力（しんだうしんりき）一切諸願成就（いつさいしよぐわんじやうじゆ）守（まも）らせ給（たま）へと

tenfukukairai chifukuwenman shindaushinriki itsusaishiyoguwanjiyaujiyu mamorase tamaheto

恐美々々（おそれみおそれみ）申壽（まうす）

osoremiosoremi mausu

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41項『送納要文』

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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