The
Cooking Pot (Kamado) Ceremony
(see Immortal Wishes, pp. 89-93)
The cooking pot (Kamado) rite is performed three times per
year by the Akakura Mountain Shrine congregation: at the New Year's
festival, the Great Summer Taisai festival
in July, and at the Mountain Closing ceremony (in town) in November.
The rite is frequently practiced by kamisama spirit mediums
in the region, and has been incorporated into the Akakura Mountain
Shrine ritual system, preceded each time by a mainstream Shinto
ceremony.
See
still images of a performance of the Cooking Pot ceremony,