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Rengaku |
A festival held the evening of August 31 in which portable shrines are paraded ( togyo , see shinkōsai ) from Togi-Hachiman Shrine to Sumiyoshi Shrine—a distance of about four kilometers—in Togi Township, Hakui District, Ishikawa Prefecture. It is said that once upon a time, Hachim... |
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Ryūkyū Shintō |
The term Ryūkyū Shintō is an all-embracing term frequently used to refer not only to the Shrine Shintō (see The History of Shrines and Shintō) transferred ( kanjō ) from the mainland since the medieval period, but also to traditional Ryūkyū beliefs that are regarded as primitive form... |
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Ryūkyū mythology |
Two types of creation myth can be found in the Ryūkyūs: the court myth contained in the histories compiled by the Shuri court and the folk myths circulating in Amami, Okinawa, Miyako and Yaeyama. The mythologies contain similarities and differences as well as a variety of motifs; the... |
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Ryūsei Matsuri |
"Dragon power festival." This daytime festival is held on October 5 at Muku Shrine in Yoshida Township, Chichibu County, Saitama Prefecture. A tower ( yagura ) and launch pad are built on a small hill behind the shrine. Bamboo tubes about ten centimeters in diameter and fi... |
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Sagi-odori |
"Heron dance." This folk ritual performance is a type of furyū dance also known as sagimai . Sagi-odori originated from dances performed to musical accompaniment at Kyoto's Giongoryōe observances, which evolved into the festival of the city's Gion Shrine (now called Y... |
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Sagichō |
A fire festival event usually held around the fifteenth of January. It can be found throughout most of the country, but is referred to by such names as tondo , dondonyaki , saitōyaki , bokkengyō , and sankurōyaki , depending on the region. There is also a fair amount of regional variatio... |
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Saigusa no matsuri |
A rite conducted in ancient times during the fourth month at the Isagawa Shrine, a subshrine of the Ōmiwa Jinja. A rite of the Ritsuryō ritual system, which appears in the Jingiryō . The name is said to derive from the saigusa flower (a mountain lily; or perhaps ikarigusa or the koshō tre... |
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Saijitsu |
Shrine observances can be largely divided into annual rituals that are performed at the same time each year, rituals that are performed at certain intervals such as the 20th year or the 12th year, as well as special observances that are carried out in irregular intervals. The day on wh... |
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Saikai |
The term sai refers to a state that transcends the ordinary. The term kai refers to the taboos ( kinki ) and regulations that have to be kept in relation to sai , as well as the state in which these taboos and regulations are adhered to. The compound saikai indicates a condition in which kai ... |
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Saikusa matsuri |
" Saikusa festival." A rite held on June 17 at Isakawa Shrine, an auxiliary ( sessha ) of Ōmiya Shrine, in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. The ceremony begins at around ten in the morning. Four female shrine attendants ( miko ) perform an offertorial dance using saikusa no hana —... |
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Saishi shūzoku |
Traditions, practices, and customs related to festivals and the rituals that form part of them. Rituals and festivals take many forms depending on time, place and the people performing it. Although the term "ritual customs" ( saishi shūzoku ) is used to refer collective... |
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Saishi yōgo |
Japanese "observances" ( matsuri ) can be broadly divided into two types, annual observances ( nenchū gyōji ) and rites of passage ( tsūka girei ). The term annual observances refers to a system in which a set of observances is repeated on a yearly basis in a particular socia... |
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Sakaero matsuri |
A rite held the evening of February 9 at Mononobe Shrine in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. Parishioners ( ujiko ) gather at the hall of worship ( haiden ) and chant, " Daimonmae no sakuranbo, yae ni saite ho o tareta, sakaero sakaero " ("Cherry tree before the gr... |
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Sakaki gidō |
"Sakaki ritual incantation." A rite held on the evening of February 13 at Shikanoumi Shrine in Higashi Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Sakaki branches are collected on Kami Mountain and distributed throughout the village, purifying all of the homes. — Mogi Sakae |
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Sakaki matsuri |
" Sakaki festival." A festival held August 15 at Ōtomo Shrine in Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture. This violent festival is a roughhousing competition, where participants fashion branches of Japanese oak ( nara ) into a pair of rods known as sakaki-sama . All the par... |
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San'nōsai |
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Sanaburi shinji |
"Rice seedling encouragement rite." A rite held some time during the last ten days of June, on the 60th day after rice seeds have been planted, at Awa Shrine in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture. Early in the morning on the day of the ritual, seedlings plucked from the seed bed... |
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Sanjinsō |
This word can also be written with Chinese characters that read sanzesō (三世相) in standard Japanese. In Okinawa it refers to a fortune-teller, who can also be called munushiri (Jp monoshiri , "knower of things") or shimuchii (Jp shobutsu , "book"). Fortune-t... |
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Sanpai sahō |
The usual way to worship in the presence of the kami (at a shrine) is to bow twice, clap twice, and bow a third time. The majority of shrines follow the guidelines set down by the Association of Shinto Shrines in the Jinja saishiki gyōji sahō (Protocol for Shrine Rites and Rituals). In the ... |
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Sarugaku, Dengaku |
Sarugaku was the term used for the performing art of nō until the Edo period (1600-1867). It is also used to refer to the older sarugaku before its development into the classic nō . The origin of sarugaku can be traced back to the sangaku imported from China during the Nara period (710-78... |
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