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Taima |
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Jingû taima |
see → Jingû taima |
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Taisai,Chûsai,Shôsai |
大祭,中祭,小祭 |
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Major festivals, celebrated in shrines throughout Japan. Lesser festivals are called chûsai , and minor festivals are called shôsai . At the taisai held at Ise no Jingû and other major shrines, an imperial Messenger ( chokushi or kenpeishi ) is dispatched from t... |
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Taisha-zukuri |
大社造 |
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A style of honden architecture. One example of this ancient style is the honden of Izumo Taisha in Shimane Prefecture. |
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Takama no hara |
高天原 |
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Plain of High Heaven. In Shinto, ame (heaven) is a lofty, sacred world, the home of the amatsukami or Heavenly Gods. Some scholars have attempted to explain the myth of the descent of the gods from Takama no Hara as an allegory of the migration of peoples and have sought to identify it wit... |
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Takamimusubi no kami |
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Musubi |
see → Musubi |
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Takatsuki |
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Saikigu |
see → Saikigu |
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Takusen |
託宣 |
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An oracle delivered through a medium (usually a woman or child) possessed by a deity. See also sanja takusen . |
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Tama |
たま Aramitama, Nigimitama,Chinkon,"Ikutama, Tarutama",Ireisai,Kushimitama,Mitamashizume,Mono,Sakimitama,Shikon,Tama matsuri,荒魂、和魂,鎮魂,生魂、足魂,慰霊祭,奇魂,みたましずめ,もの,幸魂,四魂,魂祭,霊祭 |
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Spirit. Soul. Particularly, a pure, lofty soul. Tama matsuri is a festival held to pray to, give thanks to, and appease the souls of the dead. Ireisai is a ceremony held to console the spirits of the dead. Chinkon , also called tamashizume or mitamashizume , is a ritual conducted to prev... |
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Tama |
玉 |
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A beautiful jewel. A hard, mysterious rock. Tamagaki is the sacred fence surrounding a shrine, while ikutama is a magic jewel that increases life, and tarutama is a magic jewel that increases abundance. |
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Tamagaki,Mizugaki |
玉垣,瑞垣,瑞籬,水垣 |
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A fence or wall surrounding shrine buildings or defining the boundaries of shrine precincts. May be made of wood or stone, and is sometimes found in multiple layers. At Ise no Jingû, the fence is fourfold, and the innermost fence is called the mizugaki . |
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Tamagushi |
玉串 |
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A type of offering presented on the occasion of paying formal worship to a deity. Yû (stringy fibers of a tree, about 30cm. in length) or shide (zig-zag strips of cloth or paper) are attached to a branch of sacred tree. Tamagushi are sometimes distributed to worshipers as amulets. |
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Tama matsuri |
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Tama2 |
see → Tama2 |
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Tamaya,Mitamaya |
霊屋,御霊屋 |
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A Shinto memorial altar enshrining the spirits ( mitama ) of one's ancestors. Normally, a scroll bearing the names of the ancestors, or a mirror symbolizing their spirits, is placed into a small shrine, which is kept within the mi-tamaya and worshipped on a slightly lower level t... |
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Ta no kami |
田の神 |
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God of the rice fields and thus one of the most important deities to an agricultural people. Believed to descend from the heavens (or in some cases, from the mountains) in the spring and to leave in the autumn. In ancient times, identified with the deity Uka no mitama or Toyoukehime. See ... |
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Tanritsu jinja |
単立神社 |
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An independently incorporated Shinto shrine not affiliated with the Jinja Honchô, or other small associations of local shrines. The number of such shrines is not large in comparison to the total number of shrines in Japan. |
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Tatari |
祟り |
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A warning or curse from a god dissatisfied or angered at the words or conduct of a human being. Strange phenomena, mysterious destructive happenings, unhappiness, and sudden death are often regarded as the result of such curses. |
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Tayû |
大夫、太夫 |
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Originally a respectful term for a person of court rank. In the middle ages, came to be used in reference to Shinto priests, particularly oshi serving the Ise no Jingû. In some parts of Japan today, Shinto priests are still called tayû-san . |
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Temizu |
手水 |
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Use of water to purify hands and mouth before worshiping at a shrine. The structure where these ablutions are performed is called a temizuya . |
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Tendai Shintô,Sannô ichijitsu Shintô |
天台神道,山王一実神道 |
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Also called Sannô Ichijitsu Shintô or Hie Shintô. Said to have been established by Saichô (767-822), the founder of the Tendai sect of Buddhism in Japan, but actually a later development. The Tendai sect has its headquarters on Mt Hiei in Shiga Prefecture... |
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Tenjin |
天神 |
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Originally meant "Heavenly God," but later came to refer exclusively to the spirit of courtier-scholar Sugawara Michizane (845-903). A victim of political intrigue, Michizane was sent into exile but continued to protest his innocence through poetry until his death. ... |
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