The Nagoshi Festival is a traditional Shinto purification ceremony held at the summer solstice to cleanse sins and impurities from the first half of the year and ensure safe passage through the hot summer months. Worshippers transfer their impurities onto paper dolls (hitogata) and pass through a large ring made of reed grass (chigai no wa) to ward off disease and spiritual pollution.
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