Harae or harai (祓 or 祓い) is the general term for ritual purification in Shinto. Harae is one of four essential elements involved in a Shinto ceremony...

Prunus harae is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to Bhutan. A small tree that is similar to Prunus rufa, the Himalayan cherry...

is the avoidance of kegare ("pollution" or "impurity"), while ensuring harae ("purity"). In Japanese thought, humans are seen as fundamentally pure....

the entire body. Misogi is related to another Shinto purification ritual, harae. Thus, both are collectively referred to as misogiharae (禊祓). Every year...

condition can be remedied through purification rites called misogi and harae. Kegare can have an adverse impact not only on the person directly affected...

concerned in certain ways, for example through purification rites called harae. Harae Kegare Matsumoto, Shigeru. "Tsumi". Shogakukan Encyclopedia. Yahoo! Japan...

trees, which have been considered sacred in Japan since ancient times. Harae Vala (Vedic) Philippi, Donald L. 1968/1969. Kojiki. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton...

discolor var. viridialba Maxim. Calanthe esquirolii Schltr. Calanthe tyoh-harae Makino Calanthe cheniana Hand.-Mazz. Calanthe amamiana var. latilabellata...

Lonicera guillonii H.Lév. & Vaniot Lonicera gynochlamydea Hemsl. Lonicera harae Makino Lonicera × heckrottii – golden flame honeysuckle Lonicera × helvetica...

known as the Great Purification. The name Oharae literally means Great Harae. The ritual was held biannually as a festival at the end of the sixth and...