The Mihashira or Onbashira (Japanese: 御柱, honorific prefix 御 on-/mi- + 柱 hashira 'pillar') are four wooden posts or pillars that stand on the four corners...

Gaia-Onbashira is an album by the new age artist Kitarō. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in 1998. All tracks are written...

studio albums. Among them, the live An Enchanted Evening (1995), Gaia-Onbashira (1998), and Ancient (2001) were all Grammy nominated. In 1999, Thinking...

structures with thatched roofs are traditionally rebuilt in turns during the Onbashira Festival, held every six years (in the years of the Monkey and the Tiger...

Journey, a 1994 album by the Australian singer Olivia Newton-John Gaia-Onbashira, a 1998 album by the Japanese New Age musician Kitarō GAIA, a 2003 album...

shrines, the Tenaga Jinja and the Suwa Jinja. Major festivals include the Onbashira and Setsubun. Hokusai included Lake Suwa in his famous Thirty-six Views...

Houkisugi at Nakagawa Sugi no Osugi Jōmon Sugi List of superlative trees Onbashira Magewappa a traditional Japanese wood craft using Cryptomeria Thomas,...

(about 40 to 50 meters) in Suwa Zenkō-ji temple in Nagano city Zenkō-ji Onbashira, which festival held once in seven years Yashima Wetland in Kirigamine...

Suwa Shrine festival is not annual, but occasional. It resembles the Onbashira festival of the Suwa Taisha. Chichibu's annual night festival draws the...

celebrated for its Zelkova and momiji. The Honden dates to 1832. The Onbashira Festival, held in the Year of the Tiger and Year of the Rooster, sees...

by Thomas Marolda Ending (1-13) "Kiotoshi" from the CD release "Gaia-Onbashira" by Kitaro "NATPE 1998: It's A Tough Market But Someone is Selling..."...

"Armor 1335" (鎧1335, Yoroi 1335) "Holy Pillar 1335" (御柱1335, Onbashira 1335) "Back 1335" (背中1335, Senaka 1335) "Main Fight 1335" (本戦1335, Honsen 1335)...

Missouri, US, sister city since September 23, 1974 - Wörgl, Tirol, Austria Onbashira (literally, "the honored log") festival held every six years (in the years...

symbol of Nagano. It was rung to confer blessing on the opening ceremony. Onbashira — or "sacred pillars" in the Japanese — are large wooden fir posts which...

(Christmas album) 1996 Domo Records Cirque Ingenieux 1997 Domo Records Gaia-Onbashira 1998 Domo Records Thinking of You 1999 Domo Records Ancient 2001 Domo...

Nagikama are also traditionally hammered onto the trees chosen to become the onbashira of the Suwa Kamisha and Shimosha some time before these are actually felled...

(in Japanese) Miyasaka, Mitsuaki (1992). 諏訪大社の御柱と年中行事 (Suwa taisha no onbashira to nenchu-gyōji). Kyōdo shuppansha. ISBN 978-4-87663-178-0. (in Japanese)...

Sound of Wind Driven Rain Alex De Grassi – The Water Garden Kitarō – Gaia Onbashira John Tesh – Grand Passion 2000 Paul Winter Celtic Solstice David Arkenstone...

Miyasaka, Yūshō; Ōbayashi, Taryō; Miyasaka, Mitsuaki (1987). 御柱祭と諏訪大社 (Onbashira-sai to Suwa-taisha) (in Japanese). Nagano: Chikuma Shobō. ISBN 978-4-480-84181-0...

Akimiya (秋宮) shrines are symbolically renewed every seven years during the Onbashira festival. Huge trees are cut in a Shinto ceremony, then the logs are dragged...

townsfolk grow to like him and accept him as one of their own. With the Onbashira Festival right around the corner, a town meeting is held. Some of the...

(強大なる神の国―諏訪信仰の特質)." In Ueda; Gorai; Ōbayashi; Miyasaka, M.; Miyasaka, Y. 御柱祭と諏訪大社 (Onbashira-sai to Suwa-taisha) (in Japanese). Nagano: Chikuma Shobō. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-4480841810...

Kashima-jingū, the Usa-jingū, the Kasuga-taisha, and the Suwa-taisha (the Onbashira-sai). Jingū Shikinen Sengū [ja] "Shikinensengū | 國學院大學デジタルミュージアム". archive...

(in Japanese): 122–123. 古代史ミステリー 「御柱」～最後の"縄文王国"の謎～ (Kodaishi Mystery. Onbashira: Saigo no Jōmon-ōkoku no nazo) (Documentary) (in Japanese). Japan: NHK...

Suwa-bukai). Miyasaka, Mitsuaki (1992). 諏訪大社の御柱と年中行事 (Suwa-taisha no Onbashira to nenchu-gyōji) (in Japanese). Kyōdo shuppansha. ISBN 978-4-87663-178-0...

forty years of association between the two cities. Okaya is known for its Onbashira and Taiko festivals, and unagi (eel) dishes. Okaya Silk Museum, which...

Suwa Shrine's ceremonies and ritual items, such as the shimenawa and onbashira. She planned to move Moriya Shrine from the Outside World into Gensokyo...

Mandala) Kuu (from Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume 1） Misty (from Gaia-Onbashira) Heaven And Earth (from An Enchanted Evening) Kitarō discography – Compilation...

In Ueda; Gorai; Ōbayashi; Miyasaka, M.; Miyasaka, Y. (1987). 御柱祭と諏訪大社 (Onbashira-sai to Suwa-taisha). Nagano: Chikuma Shobō. pp. 21–22. ISBN 978-4480841810...