Where does “参り” come from?

参り (Japanese) comes from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

参り (Japanese): visiting a shrine or temple

Definitions

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	連用形	an inflectional category: the continuative or...
2	Japanese	見る	to see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
3	Japanese	夢	a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
4	Old Japanese	夢	a dream
5	Japanese	目	an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
6	Middle Chinese	目	—