Nagoshi Oharae Ceremony (Summer Purification)

Kyoto · Heian Shrine

Jun 30, 2026
🎗️ Culture
Kyoto
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About this event

The Nagoshi Oharae at Heian Jingu is the summer version of the twice-yearly Grand Purification, held on the last day of June. Participants pass through a large chinowa ring made of sacred grass to ritually cleanse themselves of half a year's impurities. Dating back over a thousand years, it is one of the most widely observed Shinto rituals in Japan.

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