Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

. shugend and its relationship 1007

Shugendō Taimitsu/Tendai Kami/Popular

Spring Peak
Zasue (I, 5–9)
Genkurabe (I, 7)

New Year services and rituals

(XII, 30–I, 1–7).

Kudagayu (I, 1) and

Yonemaki (I,7) divinations

Summer Peak
Gassan mountain opening (IV, 3)

Regular services

(monthly 1–7, 11–18, 28)

Hiagari, sakamukae rites

Akai ritual (IV, 6)
Offering of 96 vases
(IV, 8–VII, 14)

Yudonosan Gongen service

(monthly, 8)

Year-end service (XII, 7–8)

Haguro Gongen festival

(VI, 14–15), shishimai

Summer Peak proper
(VI, 2–3 to VII, 14)

Taizō Mandara service

(mostly monthly, 14)

Horseback archery

(“genkurabe”) (IX, 9)

Sanjūkō (VI, 11–15) Daihannya tendoku (monthly, 15) Oriidō festival (XI, 9)
Yudate kagura

Saitō goma, Gassan (VII, 13) Services at Tōshōgū (monthly, 17)
Festival (IV, 16–17)

Shōreisai (XII, 18–30)

Gassan mountain closing
(VIII, 8)

Hagurosan Gongen service

(monthly, 18)

Year-end (XII, 16–17)

Autumn Peak
Preparations (VII, 16–19)
First Lodging (VII, 20–24)
Second Lodging, (VII, 24–VIII, 1)

Services at Founder’s Hall

(monthly, 20)

Anniversary service (X, 19–20),

Hokke zanmai

Initiation service, Fukigoshi
(VII, 28)

Sekku services

(III, 3; V, 5; VII, 7; IX, 9)

Saitō goma (VIII, 1) Hokke-e (IV, 8; VIII, 11)

Third Lodging (VIII, 1–3)
Sangōzawa pilgrimage

Sannō Gongen festival

(Hokke hakkō) (mid. IV)

Certification (VIII, 4–6) Nehankō (II, 15)

Ajarikō (X, 10–20) Dengyō Daishi service (VI, 4)

Winter Peak (XII, 28–30) Urabon-e (VII, 15)

Genkurabe (XII, 30) Jigen Daishi (Tenkai) service
(X, 2)
Tenyū service (X, 24)
Tendai Daishi service (XI, 24)
Year-end services for Gassan
(XII, 14–15)

Sources: Hagurosan nenjū gyōji. Shintō taikei, Jinja-hen, vol. 32, pp. 305–22; Nenjū
hōyō tebumi , Shugendō shiryōshū [I], pp. 84–95, Higashi Nihon-hen;
Miuchi zaitaku gyōjiki Shugendō shiryōshū [I], Higashi Nihon-hen,
pp. 95–103.

Figure 1. The Ritual Calendar of Hagurosan.