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Fuigo Matsuri, 8 November, Bellows Festival


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 "Considering the title of my seminars related to the nipponto, 'The Dai Nippon of Kami, Kiku and Sakura', my interest in the contextualization of the sword is beyond the technical-stylistic aspects.

The nihonto evokes by itself the purification rules like Harai and Kiyome that are the bases of Shinto, the Way of the Spirits and the Divine Ancestors, the Kami . Also the term indicating the sword blade is Kami, a probable allusion to the protective valances that have safeguarded it through the centuries.

Shinto has no founders or prophets, but its roots are in ancestral shamanic rites, similar to those celebrated by our fathers until the year 392 AD, when Theodosius, with a vile political act, promulgated the edict imposing the Christianity as a state religion, and launched the persecution of the pagans.

The festivals that celebrated the natural cycles were supplanted by Jewish-Christian ones.

The Pantheon and temples were transformed into churches. The sacred order of the Vestals was loosened and the millenary Vesta’s fire was extinguished.

In contrast, in Japan the doctrines of foreign origin have never succeeded in supplanting the Shinto. Everything continues in Imperial worship and traditional festivals, Matsuri, follow the cycles and the forces of nature.

On the eighth day of November, a festival will also be held for those interested in the Sword, the fire festival: Fuigo Matsuri, where the Kajishin, the Forging Kami are worshiped. "

 

Francesco De Feo

Chairman

Nbthk Italian Branch

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