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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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Goryō |
Spiritual entities that cause calamities and epidemics to an unspecified, wide range of people. However, kami such as those originally worshipped at shrines ( jinja ) were not viewed as goryō . Specifically, spirits of people who had lost their positions of power and the various kam... |
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Goryō shinkō |
The belief that spiritual beings intimidate society at large with calamity and pestilence and must therefore be appeased in order to restore tranquility and, in turn, to bring about prosperity. To placate and send them away, gatherings known as goryō-e ("meetings with augus... |
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Goryū Shintō |
A Shinto teaching belonging to the broader tradition of Ryōbu Shintō. "Goryū" originally referred to the Buddhist Dharma lineage of retired sovereigns and other retired members of the imperial house. The six basic lineages in the Kōtaku branch of Shingon esotericism i... |
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Gozakae shinji |
A ritual celebrated on the evening of September 24 at Sada Shrine in Kashima Town, Yatsuka District, Shimane Prefecture. Practiced since the Yōrō era (717-724), the ritual consists of replacing the straw matting of the kamikura . Priests below the rank of gūji (chief priest) enter t... |
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Gozu Tennō |
Literally, "ox-head-heaven-king." Also called Gion Tenjin, Gozu Tennō is a product of kami -buddha "combinatory" religion, worshiped at the Gion Shrine (Yasaka Jinja) in Kyoto, and at other shrines such as Tsushima, Tennō, Susanoo, and Yakumo. Originati... |
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Gunshin |
Other names: Ikusa no kami, Ikusa gami Originally, a tutelary kami of battle, similar to the Greco-Roman gods Ares and Mars. Numerous kami have been venerated in Japan as tutelaries of warfare, based on various interpretations of their personalities and characteristics. Ise Sada... |
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