OFFERINGS of susuki grass, rice dumplings, and sweet potato had been placed out for Otsuki-mi, the rite of the harvest moon. “The current emperor visited back in the (1970s). He was very interested, pushing cobwebs aside and looking here and there. The posts, he noticed, stand on flat stones—a sign that the builder was someone of social standing.” The main room has a shallow oshi-ita alcove, the prototype of the tokonoma. ► THE POSTS of a house were most commonly planted in the ground (hottate-bashira), their ends charred to keep termites at bay. ► THE EARLY ALCOVE (oshi-ita) holds a scroll painting of Fudo-myo-o, a Buddhist guardian deity worshipped by Yamabushi mountain ascetics. In ancient times, young shrine priests were sent to undergo Shugendo mountain training in the Kyoto area. Funds for this were gathered from local people.
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