水無月祓みなづきばらえ

noun

summer purification rites

Shinto purification ceremony held at shrines on the last day of the sixth lunar month (around the end of June). Also known as 夏越しの祓 (nagoshi no harae).

See also: 夏越の祓

• 水み無な月づき祓ばらえは、半はん年としの穢けがれを祓はらう神しん事じです。

  Minazuki-barae is a Shinto ritual to purify the defilements of the past half year.

• 神じん社じゃで水み無な月づき祓ばらえに参さん加かし、茅ちの輪わをくぐった。

  I participated in the summer purification rites at the shrine and passed through the ring of cogon grass.