mikoshi
Sign in to savethumb|A mikoshi of Hiyoshi-taisha thumb|Mikoshi fighting on Nada-no-Kenka Matsuri at Himeji thumb|This mikoshi enshrines Tokugawa Ieyasu at the [[Tōshō-gū in Nikkō.]] A is a sacred religious palanquin (also translated as portable Shinto shrine). Shinto followers believe that it serves as the vehicle to transport a deity in Japan while moving between main shrine and temporary shrine during a festival or when moving to a new shrine. Often, the mikoshi resembles a miniature building, with pillars, walls, a roof, a veranda and a railing.
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thumb|A mikoshi of Hiyoshi-taisha thumb|Mikoshi fighting on Nada-no-Kenka Matsuri at Himeji thumb|This mikoshi enshrines Tokugawa Ieyasu at the [[Tōshō-gū in Nikkō.]] A is a sacred religious palanquin (also translated as portable Shinto shrine). Shinto followers believe that it serves as the vehicle to transport a deity in Japan while moving between main shrine and temporary shrine during a festival or when moving to a new shrine. Often, the mikoshi resembles a miniature building, with pillars, walls, a roof, a veranda and a railing.
Often the Japanese honorific prefix is added, making . == History == The first recorded use of mikoshi was during the Nara period. Among the first recorded uses was when in the year 749, the deity Hachiman is said to have been carried from Kyushu to Nara to worship the newly-constructed Daibutsu at Tōdai-ji. As the head shrine of all Hachiman shrines in Japan, Usa Jingū in Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu is said to be the birthplace of mikoshi.