ABSTRACT
AS I HAVE EXPLAINED above, renewal matsuri must make their deities manifest and present, so that, by communing with them, the community can renew itself. The ways and means by which this is done varies greatly from place to place. Some deities are brought into the community from either the mountains or from capes or offshore islands. Then they are taken through the streets, or from house to house, until temporarily put to rest at a place within the community often called tabisho, places set by tradition or selected by divination. In many matsuri, deities are carried from specific places in the forests, mountains, capes or offshore islands to their shrines, perhaps in an attempt to reenshrine them, symbolically reenacting their original enshrinement.
