トシノヒ

31 December, New Year's Eve, is called Toshinohi. By this day, kadomatsu and other New Year's decorations must be in place. People offer mints to the deities they worship indoors and in the surrounding area. Indoors, they worship the fire deity of the kitchen, and outdoors, the Arakami-no-Mohi, Sui-no-Mohi and Yama-no-Mohi. In some houses, a sacred staff for the warehouse and a tsuzuratego (basket made of woven kudzu) filled with rice cakes and a shimenawa (sacred rope) are attached to the warehouse. In many places, the gohei are cut from all the houses in the district during the winter festival kagura. In many districts, a pair of bamboo tubes called kakeguri is used to hold sacred wine and is offered together with the gohei. The night of New Year's Eve is called Toshinoban, when cattle and other livestock are fed rice cakes.