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カテゴリー1： 7. Concepts and Doctrines
カテゴリー2： Basic Terms
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Sorei
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Ancestral spirits. The term is used frequently to refer to a soul that no longer possesses individual characteristics. As Yanagita Kunio has shown, for a certain period of time (thirty-three years in many cases) after death a soul receives memorial services and is called a shiryō (spirit of the dead). This is distinguished from a sorei, which has lost its individuality. Some posit that sorei may be further elevated to become deified spirits (shinrei, mitama). A family or a community may worship such deified ancestral spirits as their "ancestral deity" (sojin) or "tutelary deity" (ujigami).
— Nishioka Kazuhiko

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