If you're planning to have a Jichinsai, please look for a Shinto priest.
Can you tell me how I can find a Shinto priest?
Normally, we ask the Shinto shrine in which a local guardian deity is enshrined to perform Jichinsai.
You can find out which Shinto shrine enshrines the guardian deity by asking a local who has lived there for a long time.
So I should ask somebody that has lived long near the planned construction site, right?
Yes. If you don't know, you can look for it on the Association of Shinto Shrines website.
All the regional offices of the Association of Shinto Shrines in Japan are listed there, so you can sort them by region.
I got it. I'll visit the Association of Shinto Shrine website.
If you're not sure, you can ask the regional office of the Association of Shinto Shrines in your region and then they will tell you.
Yeah. I'll check soon.
Can I ask you to look for a Shinto shrine which can perform a Jichinsai for me?
I'm sorry, but I'm not so sure because I'm not from the place where you're planning to build a house.
Can you go to the Shinto shrine which enshrines a local guardian deity and ask them?
How can I look for a Shinto shrine?
How about asking somebody that lives in the same town that your house will be built?
Or you might as well go to the closest Shinto shrine to the planned construction site.
Can a Shinto shrine perform Jichinsai even if it doesn't enshrine the local guardian deity?
According to what I heard from my cleric acquaintance, it doesn't have to be the local guardian deity.
If I'm correct, there's a Shinto shrine near the planned construction site.
Then please go to that Shinto shrine and ask them to perform a Jichinsai for you.