Short Harae Prayer

略祓詞

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Purification and cleansing

Purification and cleansing

Harae tamae祓へ給へ

Kiyome tamae清め給へ

TranslationPurification and cleansing

Please purify us. Please cleanse us.

Editorial note

Jinja Honchō presents this as a shortened prayer recited during purification.

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About Short Harae Prayer

Overview

A short purification formula that concentrates its whole request into two phrases: “Please purify us. Please cleanse us.”

Structure
1sections
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8characters
Notes
2notes

Purposes

  • To ask for purification
  • To ask for cleansing

Background

It is presented as a brief formula for use during purification. Rather than merely summarizing a longer norito, it stands as an independent pair of direct petitions.

Flow of the text

Presented in a single section: “Purification and cleansing.”

What to know before reading

  • Although extremely short, it places harae and kiyome side by side as related but distinct acts.

  • No particular kami is named; the two petitions themselves form the entire prayer.

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