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Hanawa Hokiichi |
(1746-1821) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the mid-Edo period. Born on the fifth day of the fifth month of 1746 to a peasant family in the village of Hokino in Musashi Province (present-day Kodama Town, Saitama Prefecture). His lineage name was Ogino, and he had the style... |
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Hani-tsukai |
An observance held at Sumiyoshi Shrine (Sumiyoshi Taisha) in Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, twice a year, at the beginning of February and the beginning of November. Clay for making the earthenware platters hiraka used in festivals is brought from Mt. Unebi in Yamat... |
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Haniyasu |
[Haniyasu no kami] (Nihongi) A tutelary kami of earth. According to an "alternate writing" recorded in Nihongi , Haniyasu no kami was produced by Izanagi and Izanami after they had completed giving birth to the "Great Eight-Island Country" (Ōyashimaguni). ... |
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Hanpei |
"Distribution of ritual offerings." In the ancient era, the distribution of offerings by the Department of Divinities ( Jingikan ) to officially designated shrines, where they were dedicated to the enshrined deities as part of state observances. The first mention of h... |
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Harabote matsuri |
A festival held on September 4 and 5 at Suwa Shrine in Yamanakako Village, Minami-Tsuru District, Yamanashi Prefecture. On the evening of the fourth, the portable shrine ( mikoshi ) transported to a temporary resting place. On its return journey on the fifth, the mikoshi is carried b... |
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Harae |
Purification. This refers to the process of purifying the mind and body of accumulated sins and defilements by means of ablutions ( misogi ) or other rites and recitations. Representative of these are ceremonies performed in the presence of the kami ( shinzen ) with silk and paper cut... |
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Haraedo |
[Haraedo no kami] The tutelary kami of a place ( do ) for the performance of purification ( harae ). The expression haraedo (alt. haraedono ) is found in ancient works such as the Engishiki and the section on the Great Purification within the Jingiryō to refer to places used for the perfo... |
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Haruyamanokasumiotoko, Akiyamanoshitabiotoko |
[Haruyama no kasumi otoko.Akiyama no shitabi otoko] (Kojiki) A pair of sibling kami who appear in the middle chapters of Kojiki . The elder brother Akiyama no Shitabiotoko ("fall-mountain-ruddy-man") wagered with his younger brother Haruyama no Kasumiotoko ("... |
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Hasegawa Kakugyō |
(1541?-1646?) Practitioner of Fuji shinkō , the devotional cult to Mount Fuji, who lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama into the early Edo periods. He is claimed as the original founder of the practices of the confraternity Fujikō and religious sects Fusōkyō and Jikkōkyō. His childho... |
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Hashira matsuri |
This festival is held on July 17 at Sekiyama Shrine in Myōkō Village, Naka-Kubiki County, Niigata Prefecture. On this day, unlit pine torches known as "pillar pines" ( hashira matsu ) are put up along the right and left sides of the shrines grounds ( keidai ) Young people fro... |
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Hassaku matsuri |
The term hassaku refers to the first day of the eighth lunar month and the term hassaku matsuri encompasses a variety of observances held to appeal to the kami for a plentiful harvest. The hassaku matsuri at Matsunoo Shrine (Matsunoo Taisha) in Nishikyō Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefec... |
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Hasshinden |
The Hall of Eight Deities. Under the ritsuyō system, this hall was located in the western hall of the Jingikan (Department of Divinities) and it enshrined the eight tutelary deities of the emperor. According to Engishiki ( Procedures of the Engi Era) of 967, the names of enshrined dei... |
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Hataage shinji |
A rite is held on July 15 at Ayabe Hachiman Shrine in Nakabaru Town, Miyaki District, Saga Prefecture. A flag attached to a bamboo pole is placed in the gingko which is the shrine's sacred tree ( shinboku ). On this day, in charge of raising the flagpole into the sacred tree cleanse their b... |
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Hatano Takao |
(1798-1882) Member of the Shinto priesthood ( shinshoku ) and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo and early Meiji periods, Hatano used the epistolary names Sakaki, Eijuen and Hitachi, among others. Born 1798 in the village of Nishigata in Hoi District, Mikawa Pr... |
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Hataori shinji |
Also known as the Yamaguchi festival, this ritual is an annual observance ( reisai ) held on October 27 and 28 at Nikabe Shrine in Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Formerly, a weaving rite ( hataori shinji ) and horseback archery ( yabusamei) used to be performed on the occasion o... |
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Hatotori matsuri |
Dove-Capturing Festival. A festival held at Atago Shrine in Senmaya Town, Higashi Iwai District, Iwate Prefecture. The festival takes place in mid-August, but the dates vary from year to year. A wooden figure of a phoenix, referred to as ohato ("dove"), is placed on top o... |
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Hatsu'u matsuri |
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Hatsuho |
Literally, "first rice ears 初穂." Namely, rice offered to kami as the "first fruits" of the autumn harvest. Also found written 早穂 and 先穂. Originally hatsuho referred to ears of plucked (cut) rice, tied in bunches and hung up as an offering. At the Grand Shrines of ... |
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Hatsuho matsuri |
A festival celebrating the first ears of rice harvested is held on October 15 at Ikukunitama Shrine in Tennōji Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Formerly held on the twenty-eighth day of the ninth lunar month. Bamboo baskets containing the rice ears, are taken by twelve young girl... |
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Hatsukaesai |
Festival of the twentieth-day gathering. Held from April 1 to April 5 at Asama Shrine in Miyagasaki District, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The festival is so named because it was originally held on the twentieth day of the second lunar month. Festival floats ( dashi ) and port... |
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