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Ichinomiya / Sōja |
Ichinomiya , (literally first shrine) is a shrine occupying the highest rank among the shrines of a province. A sōja is the shrine established in each province which collectively enshrines all of the deities being worshipped at other shrines within the province. Sōja was originall... |
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Jingikandai |
The "Agency of the Department of Divinities" ( Jingikandai ) emerged to carry out a portion of the functions and powers of the archaic Department of Divinities ( Jingikan ), after these functions underwent a process of reduction and deterioration. Particularly from 160... |
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Jingū tensō |
A court post that handles miscellaneous matters involving the Grand Shrines of Ise ( Ise jingū ), including ritual procedures, public ceremonies, and lawsuits. From the Heian period on, agencies were established within the Grand Council of State to process specific administrati... |
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Magistrate of Temples and Shrines: Medieval (Jisha bugyō) |
The term used to denote the administrative system of Buddhist temples and Shintō shrines — which existed from the Kamakura to Edo period — and those bureaucrats in the bakufu responsible for supervising them. During the medieval period, the term jisha bugyō was used as a collective d... |
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Magistrate of Temples and Shrines: Pre-modern (Jisha bugyō) |
The position and Bakufu agency in charge of bureaucratic matters concerning shrines and temples. Under the Kamakura and Muromachi Bakufu magistrates — who were in charge of supervising temple and shrine repairs and prayers and ritual, and solving disputes — were created on an indi... |
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Nijūnisha (The 21 Shrines) |
Twenty-two shrines (Ise, Iwashimuzu, Kamo, Matsuno-o, Hirano, Inari, Kasuga, Ōharano, Ōmiwa, Isonokami, Ōyamato, Hirose, Tatta, Sumiyoshi, Hie, Umenomiya, Yoshida, Hirota, Gion, Kitano, Niukawakami, Kibune) that received special patronage from the imperial court beginn... |
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Shake bugyō |
Within the Muromachi shogunate, shake bugyō was the name of the magistrate office in charge of lawsuits and other issues concerning shrines and shake (which are hereditary families of Shinto priests, also known as shashike ). The term also referred to the magistrate who filled that ... |
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Shintōkata |
A post within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate of Temples and Shrines ( jisha bugyō ) during the time of the Tokugawa shogunate. A shintōkata had jurisdiction over matters related to Shintō. In the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate strove to extend control over shrines nationwid... |
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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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§ 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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