"Shichigosanda" is a name distributed in Nishimachi, Kamogawa City, Chiba Prefecture. It is said that the name originates from the rice fields where gods are worshiped, but it also comes from the fact that the shimenawa, which is a sacred tool of Shintoism and is pasted on the torii gates of shrines, is also written as Shimenawa. There seems to be a connection between
To begin with, a shimenawa is a rope that is strung around to mark the boundary between the secular world and the sacred area, saying, ``From here on out is the sacred area.'' This Shichi-Go-San ritual, in which the butts of straw are hung down in the order of three, five, and seven stripes, and the four hands of the gods are lowered between them, is pronounced ``shime'' (shime). Other surnames using Shichigosan include ``Shimeki Shimegi'', ``Shimeno'', and ``Shimekake''.
Shichigosanda = shimeta
``Shichigosanda'' is a surname pronounced as ``Shishita''. Although the exact number is unknown, it is a rare surname, with around 10 people in Chiba Prefecture, and one theory is that it exists among the priests of Atago Shrine in Fuma, Katori City, Chiba Prefecture.
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