maiden grassとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The man answers, 'A young woman dressed like a shrine maiden invites visitors to try chinowa-kuguri (passing through a hoop made of kaya grass [plants of sedge family]) at Minazuki Harai festival.'発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

｢若い女が巫女のようななりをして、水無月祓いに茅の輪をくぐれとすすめている」と答える。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

It has been used for a twig of sakaki (a tree used for shrine rituals) which miko (a shrine maiden) in the service of a shrine who performs a dance before the gods has or for igushi (a branch of a sacred tree) using a young bamboo and bamboo grass which are offered to the gods, and for a symbol of the boundary indicating the holy area decorated on shime-nawa (a thick rope used as a ceremonial implement of shrines which indicates the boundary between the holy area and the everyday area) as shide.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

神前で舞う巫女の持つ榊の小枝や、神に捧げる若竹や篠などを用いた斎串に付けたり、しめ縄に垂（四手）として飾り、神聖な領域を示す結界の象徴として用いてきた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス