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: Pilgrims usually dress in white — signifying both the colour of purity and death. Usually they wear a white shroud (''hakui'' 白衣) that indicates they are a pilgrim and that also symbolically is their burial shroud. The traditional headgear is a monastic style hat or ''kasa'' 笠 that not only protects against rain and sun but also symbolises the pilgrim's coffin and that has a funerary inscription on it. Pilgrims also carry a staff, ''tsue'' 杖, to help with walking, and that also serves as a symbolic gravestone; in earlier eras when pilgrims died on the route, they would be interred and their staff left to mark the site. Symbolically, thus the pilgrim was “dead to the world” while on the route; completion implied rebirth. The staff also symbolizes the body or presence of {{gb|kouboudaishi}} who according to pilgrimage belief accompanies every pilgrim. In effect, too, the clothing resembles that of Kōbō Daishi, who provides the archetypal model for pilgrims in Shikoku. Many pilgrims also carry a variety of items such as rosaries, bells and a white bag to carry ''{{gb|osamefuda|osamefuda}}'' 納め札 (pilgrims' calling cards), which bear their names and usually an image of Kōbō Daishi, and that are left at the temples they visit and are also given to people met along the way.

: Pilgrims usually dress in white — signifying both the colour of purity and death. Usually they wear a white shroud (''hakui'' 白衣) that indicates they are a pilgrim and that also symbolically is their burial shroud. The traditional headgear is a monastic style hat or ''kasa'' 笠 that not only protects against rain and sun but also symbolises the pilgrim's coffin and that has a funerary inscription on it. Pilgrims also carry a staff, ''tsue'' 杖, to help with walking, and that also serves as a symbolic gravestone; in earlier eras when pilgrims died on the route, they would be interred and their staff left to mark the site. Symbolically, thus the pilgrim was “dead to the world” while on the route; completion implied rebirth. The staff also symbolizes the body or presence of {{gb|kouboudaishi}} who according to pilgrimage belief accompanies every pilgrim. In effect, too, the clothing resembles that of Kōbō Daishi, who provides the archetypal model for pilgrims in Shikoku. Many pilgrims also carry a variety of items such as rosaries, bells and a white bag to carry ''{{gb|osamefuda|osamefuda}}'' 納め札 (pilgrims' calling cards), which bear their names and usually an image of Kōbō Daishi, and that are left at the temples they visit and are also given to people met along the way.

(Quelle: [http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/publications/photo-archive/nc-image/361/ Photo Archive on Japanese Religions], Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture)

(Quelle: [http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/publications/photo-archive/nc-image/361/ Photo Archive on Japanese Religions], Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture)

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