うしのときまいり

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of うしのときまいり – see the following entry.

[noun] ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death

(This term, うしのときまいり (ushinotokimairi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)