Woodcarving for the float of Japanese Shinto festivals Japanese mythology Woodworking

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This wood carving is a decorative woodcarving of a float for a Japanese Shinto festival at Tomishima Shrine in Hyogo Japan. This float is owned by the Kariya Community Association.

This piece is a four-sided wood carving pasted together to form a single work of art. The process of making one of the planes and how it is used in the festival can be seen in this video.
I plan to release videos of the other three carvings as well.

This is a wood carving of a story from the Kibune Shrine in Kyoto because Tomishima Shrine enshrines the deity of Kibune Shrine.

The story goes as follows.

The story relates to the founding of Kibune Shrine, which is described on its official website as follows:
About 1600 years ago, Princess Tamayohime, the mother of the first Emperor Jinmu, said, "I am Princess Tamayohime, the mother of the Emperor. I am the mother of the Emperor, and I am the one who governs the wind and rain, and thus moistens the land and nourishes the soil. I am the mother of the people, and I shall bring blessings to the people. He decreed, "Therefore, I shall build a shrine where my boat will stop." The boat took the Yodo River, Kamo River, and Kibune River up from present-day Osaka Bay to the present Okumiya Shrine, which is the source of the water. It is said that the origin of Kibune Shrine was when Princess Tamayori found the Reikyofukii, a well of fresh water, and built a shrine here. (https://kifunejinja.jp/shrine/#anchor-2)
Translation by Deepl

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