Every New Year in our country, people often worship their ancestors and various gods of folk belief. Some even go to temples to pray for everything to go well and everything goes well in the new year. In neighboring Japan, there is also such a tradition. Today's Japanese festival will introduce to you the activity of replacing wooden warblers to bring good luck in the New Year.
Every January 7 after the New Year, the "Wooden Warbler Replacement Activity" is held at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, a historic shrine in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan. It is called "Wooden Warbler Replacement" in Japanese. Usokae)", it is said that if you can replace the wooden "warbler" in your hand with a new "warbler" during the event, you can turn the lies you unintentionally told in the previous year into auspiciousness in the new year, and if you replace it with a "warbler" Orioles" can reap a year of happiness.
The wooden warbler replacement event was held at the Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, which is dedicated to the "god" Sugawara Michizane. The protagonist of the event, the "warbler", is hailed as the messenger of the god. People pray to the god for gifts that resemble the shape of a warbler. A wooden puppet carrying a bird, a warbler, comes to pray for good luck. The dolls used in the event are also on sale at Yushima Tenmangu Shrine (also known as "Yushima Tenjin") and Kameido Tenjin Shrine in Tokyo. There is an endless stream of people wanting to buy them, and there are often long queues.
Why are "Owl" and "God" Sugawara Michizane connected? This is because Sugawara Michizane is regarded as the god of learning in Japan. Legend has it that he has an honest character and has never lied, so there is a pun connecting him with the word "warbler" ("lie" and "warbler" have the same pronunciation in Japanese). In order to turn the lies they unintentionally told the previous year into "truths," people have replaced the carved wood "orioles" in their hands with new "orioles."
People who came to the shrine during the event chanted: "Change it, change it," while exchanging the wooden warblers in their hands with others. "Replace it with a new one, and another goal is to find the "oriole" mixed in, because it is said that if you get this oriole, you will gain happiness in the new year.
At the same time, because the event coincides with the exam season, many students come here to pass the exam. On the night of the wooden warbler replacement event, one of Japan's three big fire festivals, the "Fuuki" festival, will be held at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine. By then, the temple will be enveloped in flames and fireworks, which is worth seeing.
Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine is a shrine located in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to Michizane Sugawara, a scholar from the Heian period in Japan. It is also the cemetery of Michizane Sugawara. Together with Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto, it is the headquarters of all Tenmangu Shrines in Japan.
Sugawara Michizane, enshrined in Tenmangu Shrine, was a minister and scholar in the middle of the Heian period in Japan. Sugawara Michizane was born in a family of scholars for generations and grew up in Chinese poetry. He is revered by the Japanese as the "God of Learning" and the "God of Calligraphy" and is respected by all Japan. It also makes Tenmangu Shrine a holy place for candidates to pray for their names on the gold medal list.
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