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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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Kamigoto
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Kami matters. Antonym of arawanikoto (visible matters). Also used with the meaning of kami rites, festivals. An alternative passage in Nihongi says that Takamusuhi commanded Ōnamuchi (Ōkuninushi), "Let the visible matters over which you have control be governed by my grandchild. You should rule invisible matters (kamigoto)." Here kamigoto is used as a synonym of kakurigoto, an antonym of arawanikoto. The same work also says, "Amenokoyane no mikoto had charge of kami matters and so was made to serve by performing divination through scapulomancy." In Kogo shūi it is written, "From the Age of the Kami the Nakatomi and the Inbe have had charge of kami affairs." Here kamigoto refers to ritual, and it is clear that originally particular families were responsible for it.
See Kakurigoto 幽事
— Nishioka Kazuhiko

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