The significance of such a gift or its purpose remains unclear, although one theory is that cedar cones were preserved to burn at the festivities for the Spring Equinox.
2 thoughts on “A cedar cone”
Is it possible that the cedar cone is a reference to a sacred cedar tree at the Ōmiwa shrine?
See also Kokinshū 982:
我が庵は三輪の山もと戀しくは訪らひ來ませ杉立てる門
My hut is
At Mount Miwa’s foot;
How I long
For you to come visting
My gate where cedars stand. http://www.wakapoetry.net/kks-xviii-982/
Is it possible that the cedar cone is a reference to a sacred cedar tree at the Ōmiwa shrine?
See also Kokinshū 982:
我が庵は三輪の山もと戀しくは訪らひ來ませ杉立てる門
My hut is
At Mount Miwa’s foot;
How I long
For you to come visting
My gate where cedars stand.
http://www.wakapoetry.net/kks-xviii-982/