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Entō |
Also read shioyu , entō is liquid made by dissolving rock salt in water. It is used in the preparatory purifications ( shubatsu ) preceding ritual worship. Salt water is considered an indispensable element in the performance of ground-purification ( jichinsai ) and other rites. Cus... |
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Female Founders and Shamanesses |
Among the founders of the many Shinto-derived New Religions ( Shintōkei shinshūkyō ), there have been a number who claim to have been chosen as vehicles to be "ridden" by kami ( kamigakari ). Among the female founders, in particular, there is a relatively large number who p... |
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Folklore Research |
The establishment of Japanese Ethnology and Shintō Research This research deals primarily with Shintō phenomena observed in the daily lives of people. There has been much scholarly output since the founding of the scholarly field of ethnology. In general, Japanese ethnology is s... |
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Fudoki |
Fudoki is a general title given to a set of documents compiled in the Nara period according to a specific form and composition—a gazetteer composed of publicly reported documents. The title was likely modeled after the titles Chinese works like Zhou chu feng tu ji or Ji zhou feng tu ji , ... |
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Fugeki |
A religious figure that receives the power of a divine spirit and communicates its will ( takusen ; see Kamigakari Takusen ) or summons the spirit of a deceased person who speaks through him or her. A fugeki is believed capable of summoning a divine spirit or the spirit of a deceased pers... |
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Fuigo matsuri |
Bellows Festival. Bonfire stakes dedicated by believers throughout the country are burnt as the central rite of a bonfire festival ( hotakematsuri ) celebrated on November 8 at Fushimi Inari Shrine ( Inari Taisha ) in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. Called the "Be... |
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Fuji shinkō |
Beliefs and practices associated with Mt Fuji, Japan's highest mountain (3776 m.), situated on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Long worshipped as a sacred mountain, it is mentioned in two eighth century works, the Manyōshū and the Hitachi no kuni fudoki . Tho... |
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Fuji/Sengen Shinkō |
The cult of Mount Fuji/Mount Sengen. The old reading of the characters 浅間 is asama . (they can also be read sengen ). One theory as to why Mount Fuji was called Asama is based on the fact that the words "asa" and "aso" mean a volcano or a volcanic eruption, but there is ... |
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Fujii Takanao |
(1764-184) Shinto priest (shikan) and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Known commonly as Ozen, he went by the epistolary names Matsunoya and Shōsai. Born in Miyauchi, Kayō District, Bitchū Province (present-day Okayama Prefecture) in 1764, Takana... |
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Fujitani Mitsue |
(1768-1823) Scholar of the Japanese language of the late Edo period. Born in Kyoto, where he was a resident, Fujitani was the son of Fujitani Nariakira. His common names included Gengo and Sen'emon, his formal names were Narihisa, Narimoto, and Mitsue, and his epistolary names incl... |
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Fujitani Nariakira |
(1738-79) Scholar of the Japanese language in the mid-Edo period. Born in 1738 in Kyoto to Minagawa Shundō, an avid amateur scholar of the merchant class; his elder brother was the famed Confucianist Minagawa Kien (1734-1807). His common name was Sen'emon, his style was Chūtatsu, a... |
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Fukensha |
A pre-war shrine rank comprised of prefectural shrines ( kensha ) and municipal district shrines ( fusha ). In the modern shrine ranking system established in 1871, shrines were divided into kansha (state shrines) and shosha (general shrines). Shrines in the fukensha category occ... |
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Fukko Shintō |
"Restoration Shinto," also known as "Pure Shinto" (Jun Shintō), "Ancient-Way Shinto" (Kodō Shintō), "Nativist Shintō" (Kokugaku Shintō), and "Shintō Fukkoha" (the Shintō Restoration Faction). This term is usually em... |
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Fukuba Bisei (Yoshishizu) |
(1831-197) Scholar of National Learning ( Kokugaku ) of the late Edo and early Meiji eras. Born in 1831 as the son of Fukuba Yoshitada, a samurai retainer of the Tsuwano Domain (in present-day Shimane Prefecture). Fukuba specialized in the study of kokugaku as a student at the Yōrōkan ... |
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Fukujin shinkō |
Cultic worship of "deities of good fortune" or "good-luck deities" ( fukujin ), namely those that respond to human prayers for happiness. It should be noted that the term fukujin is not a proper noun, but a general referent given to any deity whose primary funct... |
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Funa-hiki matsuri |
Boat-Pulling Festival. A festival held on March 2 at Kanbe Shrine in Kushigata Town, Naka-Koma County, Yamanashi Prefecture. A rite commemorating the invocation ( kanjō ) and the journey of the shrine's kami Miwa-myōjin, from the Ōmiwa Great Shrine ( Ōmiwa Taisha ) in Yamato. A boat... |
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Funado |
[Funado no kami](Nihongi) Other names: Kunado sae no kami ( Nihongi ), Tsukitatsu Funado no kami ( Kojiki ) The first of the kami produced by Izanagi as he threw down his staff in preparation for ablutions at "Awakihara by the Strait of Tachibana in Hyūga of Tsukushi" follow... |
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Furukawa Mitsura |
(181-83) Shinto priest ( shinshoku ) and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo) period and early Meiji era. His common names were Sohei, Shōsaku, and Mino no Kami, and he used the epistolary name Kyūkodō. Born in Edo in 1810, he was a disciple of Hirata Kanetane. Durin... |
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Furyū |
Refers to beautiful and highly decorated structures ( tsukurimono ) and floats ( nerimono ) used in festivals, and also to the dances and music ( hayashi ) presented by costumed performers at festivals. The word furyū originally meant tradition ( ifū ) and nostalgia ( yo-in ) in China. ... |
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Fusōkyō |
One of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto. It was organized as a group by Shishino Nakaba (1844-84) from the Satsuma domain based on the mountain cult to Mount Fuji ( Fuji shinkō ) founded by Hasegawa Kakugyō (1541?-1646?), but it developed as a religious group with strong Shinto colo... |
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