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| Straw sandals, grass-soled sandals. They are specially used in Buddhism, Shinto and by yamabushi, for walking on very holy ground such as sacred mountains and are thus associated with pilgrimage and asceticism. Each November on saru-no-hi (the ninth day on the Chinese calendar) at the Nakiri jinja, Mie, great 3-metre waraji are floated out to sea (waraji-nagashi) to petition for good fishing A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Brian Bocking) | |||