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0. History (Antiquity) Research |
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1. Ancient Shinto (1) |
Because Shinto is regarded as a natural or ethnic religion, its origins cannot be clearly specified. Rather, it must be considered a religion that was nurtured over a long history. Kami worship ( jingi saishi ) or shrine Shinto became systematized in a variety of aspects in or just bef... |
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1. Ancient Shinto (2) |
— Kami Rites under the Ritsuryō System — With the establishment of the Ritsuryō system of legal codes from the latter half of the seventh century, Shinto ritual gradually became systematized. The two main pillars of the establishment of the new nation were the Ritsuryō codes and the c... |
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1. Medieval Shinto |
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3. Modern and Contemporary Shinto |
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3. Shinto in the Early Modern Period (0) |
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3. Shinto in the Early Modern Period (1) |
— From Buddhistic Shintō to Confucian Shintō — One of the most conspicuous features of early modern Shintō is the shift from the prominence of Ryōbu Shintō, Sannō Shintō, and other related philosophies based on the combination of buddhas and kami (see shinbutsu shūgō and bukka Shint... |
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A Brief Chronological Table of Shinto History |
A Brief Chronological Table of Shinto History. This table is beta version (as of 2013.5.15), and still is under development. |
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A Kami by any other Name |
It is widely known that Shinto is counted among the world's polytheistic religions, but each Shinto kami also bears multiple names, making their stories harder to untangle. Originally, in the Kojiki and Nihongi , the ways of referring to the same kami often differed. While in the Koj... |
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A comparison of Kami names in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki |
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Abe no Seimei |
(921-15) Mid-Heian-period master of on'myōdō and founder of the Tsuchimikado clan. Generally believed to have been born in the province of Sanuki (present-day Kagawa Prefecture), and purported to have been the descendant of Abe no Kurahashimaro, Minister of the Left. Taught by ... |
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Agata matsuri |
The main annual festival ( reisai ) of Agata Shrine, in Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture held around June 5 (originally, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar). The festival begins on the fifth with the offering of a sacred meal to the kami . At about 1 a.m. on the night of the sixt... |
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Ageuma shinji |
"Sacred horse rite". Performed at the Tado Shrine on May 4 and 5 at Tado Jinja in Tado-chō, Kuwana-gun, Mie prefecture, the rite takes its name from the tradition of having horses run up the steep slope along the stone stairway leading to the shrine. Six of the seven particip... |
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Aidono |
A structure enshrining multiple kami in addition to the principal object of worship ( shushin ). In some cases, the term aidono is used even when all jointly enshrined kami are considered principal objects of worship. Ｋami enshrined in an aidono are called aidono no kami (jointly en... |
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Aikokushin |
A compound word that refers to having attachment to one's nation and perceiving one's destiny as identical to that of the nation. The word has taken root as a translation of the word "patriotism." The original meaning of the term is a simple and peaceful love for, or attachm... |
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Ainame-sai |
Also called Ainie no matsuri or Ainbe no matsuri . In ancient times, this festival was held at select shrines several days prior to the niinamesai festival to celebrate the new harvest. The first documentary mention of the term occurs in Nihonshoki under the entry for the third day of t... |
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Aizawa Seishisai |
(1782-1863) Confucian scholar and samurai retainer of the Mito Domain (located in present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) in the late Edo period. Birth name Yasushi. His style was Hakumin, and his common name was Tsunezō, while he had the epistolary names Seishisai and Keisai. An eager st... |
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Aizujinjashi |
Report on the Shrines of Aizu. One fascicle ( kan ). A shrine report compiled by Hattori Ankyū (1619-81) an official of the Aizu domain, at the command of the feudal lord ( daimyo ) Hoshina Masayuki (1611-73). Completed in the tenth lunar month of 1672, Aizujinjashi is a compilation of t... |
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Ajiro Hironori |
(1784-1856) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and priest at the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in the late Edo period. His common name was Shikibu, and epistolary name Yutai. Born in 1784 in Yamada in the province of Ise (present-day Mie Prefecture), Ajiro's father was Ajiro ... |
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Ajisukitakahikone |
[Ajisukitakahikone no kami](Kojiki) Other names: Ajishikitakahiko no kami, Ajishikitakahikone no kami Also known as Kamo no ōmikami; the offspring of the land-founding deity Ōkuninushi no kami, and Tagiribime no mikoto (one of the three goddesses of Munakata, daughters of Sus... |
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