うしのときまいり

Japanese
For pronunciation and definitions of うしのときまいり – see the following entry.
【丑の時参り】
[noun] ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death
(This term, うしのときまいり, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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