Title The Sacred Meals of Ise Jingu Grand Shrine

  • Aichi
  • Mie
Topic(s):
Shrines/Temples/Churches Annual Events National Parks/Quasi-National Parks
Medium/Media of Use:
Pamphlet
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2019
Associated Tourism Board:
Ise-Shima National Park
Associated Address:
Sugashimacho, Toba-shi , Mie

伊勢神宮の神饌

毎日二度、伊勢神宮の神々のために特別な食事が用意されます。お供えの食事は、米、かつお節、海藻、果物などの農産物、塩、水、酒で構成されています。神職たちは、古代の道具を使って調理に使う火をつけます。食材の多くは鳥羽の海で収穫されます。これらの食材は伝統的な日本料理である和食の要素であると考えられています。


毎年10月中旬には、国と世界の息災を祈願する神嘗祭の一環として、さらに手の込んだ品々が神に捧げられます。伊勢神宮の最も重要な儀式であるこの神のための饗宴を再現したものは、鳥羽市立海の博物館に展示されています。


The Sacred Meals of Ise Jingu Grand Shrine

Twice each day, special meals are prepared as offerings to the deities enshrined at Ise Jingu. The offerings consist of rice, dried bonito, seaweed, fruit and other farm produce, salt, water, and sake (rice wine). Priests use ancient tools to start the fire that cooks the meals. The ingredients—many of which are sourced from Toba’s waters—are considered fundamental elements of washoku traditional Japanese cuisine.


Every year in mid-October, as part of the Kannamesai Festival, an even more elaborate array of foods is offered to the gods in prayer for the continued health of the nation and the world. A re-creation of this holy feast, which is Ise Jingu’s most important ritual, is on display at the Toba Sea-Folk Museum.


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