In order to submit “Oharae-Katashiro” for the purification ceremony, people write their name and age on the paper dolls and then pass them over the left side, right side, and center of the chest, completing the process by releasing a breath onto the paper. The “katashiro” thus become vessels for the supplicants’ impurities, and when the papers are washed away, they symbolically take the impurities with them.
How to the passing ring ceremony.
( The trick is to walk in a way that makes the number 8. )
1 Stand in front of the wheel
2 Go through the ring, turn left and return to the front.
3 Go through the ring, turn right and return to the front.
4 Go through the ring again, turn left and return to the front.
5 Pass through the ring from the front and head towards the Main Hall (Honden).
