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Tsurumine Shigenobu |
(1786-1859) Shinto intellectual and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Tsurumine was born in 1786 as the son of Tsurumine Nobutsuna, priest of Yasaka Shrine in Usuki, Bungo Province (present-day Oita Prefecture), and showed a keen interest in the stud... |
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Tsushima Shintō |
A term used to refer to the shrines and cults characteristic of the island Tsushima in the Sea of Japan, although the actual meaning of the term is not well defined. The island of Tsushima has been very important since antiquity as an intermediary station on maritime routes. Many of Tsu... |
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Uden Shintō |
Shinto doctrines enunciated by Kamo no Norikiyo (a.k.a. Umetsuji no Norikiyo, 1798-1862). Norikiyo hailed from a family of Shinto priests at the shrine of Kamo wake Ikazuchi Jinja, and constructed his teachings on the basis of the Shinto transmissions that had emerged there. In th... |
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Ueda Kazutoshi |
(1867-1937) Scholar of Japanese language of the Meiji and Showa eras. Born the first month of 1867 in the Edo residence of the lord of Nagoya Domain. Graduated in 1888 from Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) Department of Literature in Japanese literature, and entere... |
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Uematsu Arinobu |
(1758-1813) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the late Edo period. Common name Chūhei. Uematsu was born 1758 in Nagoya in the Owari Domain (in present-day Aichi Prefecture). His father was a rōnin (masterless samurai), a former retainer of the Owari Domain who operated a w... |
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Unden Shintō |
A branch of Shinto founded by the Edo-period Shingon monk Jiun Onkō (1718-1804). As Jiun lived on Mt. Katsuragi, it is also called Katsuragi Shintō. Jiun's learning extended not only to esoteric Buddhism, siddham (Sanskrit philology), and Zen, but also to Confucianism and Shinto. ... |
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Urabe Kanekata |
(n.d.) Scholar of the mid-Kamakura era. Also known as Kaiken. Son of Kanafumi, of the Hirano branch of the Urabe clan, who held the office of jingi taifu in the Department of Divinities (Jingikan). Originally, the Urabe clan had charge of the practice of plastromancy, ( kiboku ), a for... |
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Urata Nagatami |
(184-93) Shinto scholar of the Meiji era. Born on the first day of the third month of 1840 in the town of Uji in Watarai District of the province of Ise. His style name was Kokufu and he used the epistolary name Kaitei. In 1857, Urata inherited his family's hereditary positions of Naikū go... |
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Wakabayashi Kyōsai |
(1679-1732) A scholar of Suika Shintō and Confucianism in the mid-Edo period. Born in Kyoto in 1679, his style name was Shiin, his formal names were Masayoshi and Yukiyasu, and his epistolary names included Kyōsai, Bōnanken, and Hikei. A student of Asami Keisai, Wakabayashi and fel... |
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Watanabe Ikarimaru |
(1836-1915) A Shinto priest ( shinkan ) and scholar of National Studies ( kokugaku ) active from the end of the Tokugawa regime through the Meiji era. His formal name was initially named Shigetō, but later changed to Ikarimaru. His common names included Yokichirō and Tetsujirō, and h... |
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Watarai Ieyuki |
(1256-1356) A scholar of Ise Shintō during the Nanbokuchō period (ca. 1336-1392). Born as the first son of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) Suppliant Priest ( negi ) Muramatsu Ariyuki, Watarai began his career as a negi in 1306 and at the age of eighty-six reached the position of First Negi of th... |
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Watarai Tsuneyoshi |
(1263-1339) A scholar of Ise Shintō during the late Kamakura and Nanbokuchō periods. Born as the second son of Higaki Sadanao, the First Suppliant ( ichi no negi ), also called the Superintendent or chōkan ) of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) at the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū). His initial ... |
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Watarai Yukitada |
(1236-135) A scholar of Ise Shintō of the late Kamakura period. His father was Nishikawara Yukitsugu, but he was raised by his grandfather, Yukiyoshi. Watarai Yukitada was appointed as Suppliant Priest ( negi ) of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) at the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in 1251... |
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Worldmate (formerly Cosmomate) |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Fukami Seizan (aka Fukami Tōshū) (1951-). Fukami, whose real name is Handa Haruhisa, was born in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture and is a graduate of Dōshisha University. From his teenage years he was influenced influenced by the thought of ... |
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Yamada Akiyoshi |
(1844-1892) A patriot ( shishi ) of the Restoration period and a Meiji military man and politician. Born in 1844 in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture's Hagi City as the son of a retainer of the Chōshū Domain. His childhood name was Ichinojō and his epistolary name was Kūsai. He studied ... |
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Yamada Yoshio |
(1873–1958) A scholar of Japanese philology and literature who was active from the later Meiji through the Shōwa eras. Born in Toyama Prefecture on May 10, 1873, Yamada dropped out of Toyama's ordinary middle school, then passed the teacher's license examination for elementary an... |
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Yamaga Sokō |
(1622-1685) An early Edo-period scholar of Confucianism and Military Science. His formal name was Takasuke, his style was Shikei, and he had the epistolary names Sokō and Inzan. Born in 1622 in Aizu Wakamatsu, he began his study of the Neo-Confucian Zhuxi under Hayashi Razan at the a... |
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Yamaguchi Okinari |
(1831-1886) A Meiji-era scholar of the Grand Shrines of Ise ( Ise Jingū ). His childhood name was Tanekichi, his common name was Denbee, later changed to Okinari, and his epistolary names were Tōen and Shunpo. He was born in the Watarai District of Ise Province (present-day Mie Prefec... |
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Yamakage Shintō |
A new religion that emerged from the so-called "ancient Shinto ( Ko Shintō )" tradition. The Yamakage family does not feature in historical accounts, but it claims to be an old Shinto family that was deeply trusted by and served successive generations of the imperial hous... |
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Yamamoto Nobuki |
(1873-1944) A scholar of modern Shintō history and D.Lit ( bungaku hakushi ). Born in 1873 to a family of hereditary Shintō priests ( shinshoku ) at Tachima village, Kita-Uwa District, Ehime Prefecture, he became a follower of the Shinto sect Konkōkyō. In 1895 he graduated from Kokug... |
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