巳みの日ひの祓はらえ

expression, noun

purification ceremony on the first day of the snake in the third lunar month

Archaic Shinto purification rite held on the first 巳の日 (day of the snake) of the third month in the old lunar calendar.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんには、巳みの日ひの祓はらえが春はるの重じゅう要ような行ぎょう事じとして記しるされている。

  In old documents, the purification ceremony on the first day of the snake is recorded as an important spring event.