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| The usual meaning is umbrella but in a Shinto festival it often means a giant umbrella-shaped decoration on a float, as for example in the kasa-hoko (umbrella floats) of the kawase ('rapids') matsuri at Chichibu jinja, Saitama on September 20th A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Brian Bocking) | |||