Sep 7, 2021
Hanging up a shimenawa sacred rope decorated with model fish and lumber tools onto the torii gate of the mountain deity’s shrine at midnight during the January 7th Yama no Kami Matsuri Festival (山の神祭) in Kowaura Bay, Nantō Town (present-day Minamiise), Mie Prefecture
Image from “三重の祭” (Mie no Matsuri”) by the Iseshima Editorial Board 伊勢志摩編集室, Shiosai Bunko, 1994, page 23