国道の車線を左右に分けた、神聖な区域がありました。
其処には「梛の木」と謂れのある祠が祀られています。
梛の木は古より、罪穢れを祓う禊の木として用いられてきました。
梛の葉は繊維結合が強く、引っ張っても契れ難いことから、
男女の仲を強く結びつけると信じられ、鏡の裏やお守り袋の中に
梛の葉を入れて「縁結び」のお守りとしても親しまれてきたようです。
この梛木、過去には国道拡幅に伴い、伐採検討もされたようですが、
地元の方々の強い思いにより無事守られ、今に在ると聞き及びます。
There was a holy area which divided a lane at the national road into the right and the left.
As for there, the small shrine where there are " the tree of the Podocarpus Nagi " and history is worshiped.
The tree of the Podocarpus Nagi was used as the tree of the purification ceremony to conduct traditional ceremonies to expel evil spirits in the tainting with sin from the old days.
The Podocarpus Nagi leaf has strong fiber.
It was believed to tie the relations of the man and woman from the nature of the leaf for which it is difficult to tear.
It puts a Podocarpus Nagi leaf into the mirror and in the amulet case of it and it seems that it is made the charm of " the marriage ".
In the past, this Nagi was in the crisis of the felling in the purpose to enlarge a national road.
However, by the strong thought of the local people, it evaded the crisis of the felling and it continued to be loved by the people until today.
The number of yesterday is 41.