Prayers for a Good Second Half of the Year

OK, I am having trouble translating the name of this event. Basically it translates as Summer’s Barking, but they pray for the second half of the year to be good. So, Summer’s Prayers it is!

From Heian times there was a tradition of making a grass circle large enough or people to pass through. People who did were saying or chanting a kind of prayer. Successfully doing this three times meant that you would pass through the heat of summer.

References

In Japanese

http://www.i-nekko.jp/gyoji/2013-062613.html

https://kotobank.jp/word/夏越の祓-857369

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