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Newborn infant's shrine visit


Miyamairi

About thirty days after a child is born, it is taken to a Shinto shrine for its first shrine visit. This is called miyamairi. Miyamairi used to be an important event by which the child became a parishioner of a Shinto shrine as its first step toward becoming a member of society. However, to say, it tends to be practiced only formally.

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