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A twisted rice-straw rope with hanging paper strips.
Also known as: Sacred rope, Enclosing rope
A shimenawa is a rope of twisted rice straw hung with folded paper strips, marking something as sacred or as separating the sacred from the ordinary. It is placed around trees, rocks and shrine entrances rather than being an object of veneration itself.
Marks an object or a place as sacred in Shinto practice, hung with folded paper strips.
Contexts: Religion
Designates rather than is venerated: what it encircles is the sacred thing, and the rope marks the boundary.
Contexts: Religion
A thick twisted band of pale straw with folded paper strips hanging from it in a line at intervals.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.