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Shiwahiko Shrine, Shiogama Shrine Priest Training Institute |
(Shiogama Jinja shinshoku yōseijo) A training institute for shrine priests (see also Shrine Priest Training Institutes) approved by the Association of Shintō Shrines (Jinja Honchō) and run by the shrines Shiwahiko Jinja and Shiogama Jinja. These two shrines were originally sep... |
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Shosha negi kannushi hatto |
An ordinance aimed at all shrines and shrine affiliated priests, pronounced as part of the policies of the Tokugawa shogunate to control religion. It outlines the fundamental principles of the shogunate regarding shrines and Shinto priests. It was promulgated along with the temp... |
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Shrine Parishioner Registration (ujiko shirabe) |
A set of regulations for the registration of parishioners at large and small shrines promulgated by the Council of State (Dajōkan) that was in operation for two years from the fourth day of the seventh month of 1871 until May 29, 1873. The regulations for shrine parishioner registrat... |
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Shrine priest training institutes |
For a priest to receive an appointment to a shrine attached to the Jinja Honchō (Association of Shintō Shrines), he or she has to acquire qualifications as set out by the Association. In prewar times, the would-be priest had to meet stipulations as laid down in imperial edicts. Shrine ... |
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Shuinchi, Kokuinchi |
In principle, shuinchi refers to land granted to shrines (and temples) by the shogun and sealed with a vermilion seal, while kokuinchi refers to land granted under a black seal by a daimyō (local feudal lord). In both cases, the shrine has full administrative rights over the donated l... |
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Shōten |
Official responsible for imperial rituals performed at the kyūchū sanden . The post, which featured three positions of descending rank, was founded in 1871 as part of the Jingishō. Later, it was moved to the Shikiburyō and then became part of the Kunaishō's Shikibushoku. With the po... |
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Sonsha |
Village shrines. A category of shrines stipulated under the shrine system established in the Meiji era. The broad categorization was between official shrines ( kansha ) and other shrines ( shosha ), and village shrines fell into the latter category, ranked below gōsha (district sh... |
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State Shintō |
(kokka Shintō) In the narrow sense, Kokka Shintō refers to Shrine Shintō as supervised until 1945 by the state and as administered separately in law from other forms of Shintō. In the wider sense, it has been conceptualized as the state religion manifest in the merging of the Shintō of ... |
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Taikyō Senpu |
The Great Promulgation Campaign. In a narrow sense, this refers to the propagation of the Great Teaching ( taikyō ), also known as the "great way of the kami " ( kannagara no taidō ) by missionaries called senkyōshi . The movement was launched in 1870 by the "Imperial Re... |
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Taisha Kokugakukan |
The Taisha Kokugakukan (Izumo Shrine Priest Training College) is a Jinja Honchō-approved training institute for shrine priests ( shinshoku ) managed by Izumo Taisha. Izumo established the institute within the shrine precincts in 1938 to promote Shintō-based ethics. Training o... |
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Tennōsei, Tennōseido |
The origins of the tennō (Heavenly Sovereign or emperor) and the various systems associated therewith are largely unclear. However, there are ancient beliefs set out in Kikishinwa (the mythology expressed in the Kojiki and Nihongi ) that the descendants of Amaterasu hereditaril... |
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The Meiji Jingikan |
The early Meiji office for the administration of ritual and shrine affairs, established in the seventh month of 1869, and located above the Council of State (Dajōkan) in the institutional hierarchy. In the Ōnin wars of the fifteenth century, the ancient state's Jingikan building w... |
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Uji no kami |
The head of a clan ( uji ); also called uji no sō and uji no osa , or in ancient times, kono kami . The first document mentioning uji no kami is Nihon shoki , in an entry from the second month of 664 (the third year of Emperor Tenji's reign), which records the gift of large swords to the uji no kami ... |
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Yoshi no hōbeishi |
On the occasion of the sokui (imperial accession), the Daijōsai, and the emperor's genpuku (Coming-of-Age Ceremony) extraordinary hōbei (offerings) called Yoshino hōbei were sent to the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) and other shrines to announce impending court ceremonies a... |
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§ Outline of institutions and systems of medieval and early modern period |
The medieval period was centered on the system, founded in the mid-Heian period, of offerings to the twenty-two shrines of the central imperial court ( nijūni-sha ), the operation of provincial shrines ( ichinomiya/sōja ) located throughout the country, and the observance of impe... |
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§ Policies and Institutions of the Classical Period |
The policies and institutions of Shintō were first established during the formation of the ritsuryō polity (a system of punitive and administrative legal codes based on the Tang Chinese model) in the latter half of the seventh century. The existence of Shintō systems and organizat... |
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§Modern and Contemporary Systems and Institutions: An Overview |
The Restoration government used the so-called Shinbutsu hanzen rei of 1868 to articulate its policy of separating Buddhism and Shintō, and thus end the practice of Shintō and Buddhist amalgamation ( shinbutsu shūgō ). In 1871, the government then issued legislation defining shri... |
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