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Futodama |
[Futodama no mikoto] (Kojiki) A kami identified as ancestor of the Inbe clan, and whose characteristics are believed to reflect the official functions of the clan as court ritualists. Kogo shūi records Futodama as the child of Takuhatachijihime, and grandchild of Takamimusuhi no ... |
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Futsunomitama |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Sajifutsu no kami, Mikafutsu no kami ( Kojiki ) The personification of a divine sword. At the time of Emperor Jinmu's campaign to the east, Amaterasu ordered Takemikazuchi to assist the beleaguered Jinmu, whereupon Takemikazuchi miraculously sen... |
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Futsunushi |
[Futsunushi no kami] (Nihongi) A tutelary kami of swords, interpreted by some as the divine personification of the sacred sword Futsu no mitama, and revered as one of the ancestral kami ( sojin ) of the Fujiwara clan. Futsunushi's activities frequently overlap with those of the kami ... |
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Fūjin sai |
"Festival of the wind deities." A festival of the ancient and medieval eras. Also called Tatsuta Wind Deities Festival. Often referred to collectively, together with the Hirose Ōimi Festival ( Ōimi sai ), as the "Hirose-Tatsuta Festival." A ritual praying f... |
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Gagaku |
Gagaku is said to be the exemplary musical form that was transmitted to Japan from the Asian mainland in ancient times. In ancient times it formed one branch of Japanese music, but as time passed musical forms created in Japan such as saibara and rōei also came to be incorporated into ga... |
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Gairaishin |
In general terms, a kami which has arrived "from outside." The expression itself, however, is very ambiguous, and is used in a variety of ways, with the result that it has not been fully accepted as an academic term. Historical usage, however, points generally to a tripart... |
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Gechinsai |
In the past it was believed that ekishin , the kami of pestilence, were particularly active during the third month of the lunar calendar, the time when cherry blossoms scatter. The gechinsai festival occurs on April 18 at Sai Shrine (Sai Jinja), the sessha (auxiliary shrine) of Ōmiwa ... |
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Gengenshū |
Beginning at the Beginning Collection . A Shintō text that employs such sources as Ruijū jingi hongen ( Classified Kami Fundamentals ) and Koren shū ( The Sacred Vessel Collection ) to expound on the Ise Shintō notion of "Begin at the beginning and make the base the basis." W... |
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Gion matsuri |
A festival held between July 1 and July 29 at Yasaka Shrine in Higashiyama Ward, Kyōto City, Kyōto Prefecture. In ancient times it was called the Gionryō'e ("Gion Spirit Assembly"). The origin of the festival is said to be in the "spirit assembly" held by Empero... |
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Gion/Tsushima Shinkō |
This faith takes Gozutennō and Susanoo as "enshrined deities" ( saijin ). The kami Gozutennō is a conflation of the Indian guardian deity of Gion Shōja ( Jetavanavihāra monasteries) and Chinese Onmyōdō , which was further combined with Susanoo in Japan. Whilst the cult of... |
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Gobushosetsuben |
(Yoshimi Yoshikazu) Discourse on the Five Texts . Twelve fascicles. Written by Yoshimi Yoshikazu . This work argues from a perspective of evidential scholarship that Shintō gobusho (Five Texts of Shinto), which serve as fundamental scriptures for Ise Shintō, are in fact forgerie... |
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Godaiin Mahashira |
(185-79) Born 1805 in Kagoshima as the son of a scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ), he interacted with Kagoshima domain kokugaku scholars Shirao Kunihashira and Hatta Tomonori, and in 1839 became a disciple of Hirata Atsutane in Edo. In 1841, the low-ranking kobankaku samura... |
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Gogan shinji |
An annual festival ( reisai ) that takes place on February 10 at Sugōisobe Shrine in Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture. After the ritual service, dozens of young ujiko (parishioners) from the two districts neighboring the shrine, Shikiji and Oka, dressed in white undergarments, whit... |
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Gohei |
A kind of ritual wand, one type of heihaku , also called heisoku . Gohei were originally identical to cloth offerings called mitegura , but the term gradually came to be used in its present, narrower sense. Gohei are made by attaching zig-zag cut strips of gold, silver, white or multico... |
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Gohō |
"Protector of Dharma." Also called Gohō dōji (lit., "child protector of the dharma") or Gohō zenshin ("good-deity protector of the dharma"), figures originally appearing as minor tutelaries within Buddhism. Within the mountain sect of Shugen... |
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Gokoku jinja |
"Shrines for the protection of the nation," shrines dedicated to the spirits of individuals who died in Japanese wars from the end of the early modern period through World War II. Throughout most of the prewar period these shrines were known as shōkonsha or "spirit-... |
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Gomottomosama |
Gomottomosama is the vernacular name for the February setsubun festival held at Mitsumine Shrine in Ōtaki Village, Chichibu District, Saitama Prefecture. A bean-scattering ceremony takes place in the haiden on the day before the calendrical beginning of spring ( setsubun no hi )... |
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Gonansanjoshin |
[Gonan sanjoshin] "Five male and three female kami ," a collective term referring to the offspring produced as a result of Amaterasu and Susanoo's trial by pledge ( ukei ). The three female kami were produced from the "seed" ( monozane ) represented by Susanoo'... |
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Gonda Naosuke |
(189-87) Late-Tokugawa and early Meiji-era scholar of Hirata Atsutane's school of National Learning ( kokugaku ). Born in 1809 in Iruma District in the province of Musashi (present-day Saitama Prefecture) as the son of physician Gonda Naonori. At the age of nineteen, Naosuke move... |
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Gongen shinkō |
Belief in the incarnation of a Buddha or bodhisattva for the sake of bringing salvation to all sentient beings. Terms having the same meaning include gonge and kegen . There also arose the idea, as seen in the honji-suijaku theory , that the kami of Japan are likewise such manifestatio... |
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