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Yôhai |
遙拝 |
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Worship from afar. If an object of worship is located far away and it is difficult to go there to worship directly, worship facilities called yôhaijo may be established separately in local areas. |
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Yomi |
黄泉 |
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The land of the dead. The world where evil, unhappiness, destruction, and curses originate. Whereas Takama no Hara is the ideal world of the gods, Yomi is the nether world, inhabited by evil spirits called magatsuhi no kami. |
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Yorishiro |
依代 |
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Medium or symbol for the spirit of a dead person. See also Shintai. |
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Yoshida Kanetomo |
吉田兼倶 |
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Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511). Founder of Yoshida Shintô. Yoshida explained the significance of Shinto according to theories handed down in his family for generations, emphasizing Shinto as the original source of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. |
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Yoshida Shintô |
吉田神道 |
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One of the academic schools of Shinto. Also called Gempon Sôgen Shintô (Fundamental, Elemental Shinto), Yuiitsu Shintô (One-and-Only Shinto), and Urabe Shintô. The Yoshida family was in ancient times a family of diviners serving the court; they later ... |
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Yudate |
湯立 |
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A ceremony in which priests and miko boil water in a large cauldron on a coarse straw mat inside shrine precincts and use bamboo leaves to sprinkle the hot water over themselves and worshipers. Believed to signify the casting off of impurities. Sometimes performed to facilitate the p... |
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Zen |
善 |
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Good. Not only good in the moral sense, but also happiness or superiority of nature or value. |
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Zôka no sanshin |
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Musubi |
see → Musubi |
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