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Hayaakitsuhi, Hayaakitsuhime |
[Haya akitsuhi no kami.Haya akitsuhime no kami](Kojiki) Other names: Haya akitsuhiko no kami( Kojiki ), Haya akitsuhi no mikoto( Nihongi ), Minato no kami ( Kojiki ) One of the kami produced by Izanagi and Izanami in Kojiki 's account of the "birth of the land" ( kuniumi ). T... |
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Hayama shinji |
A divination rite ( toshiura ) predicting the fish catch in the coming year, held at Shishiki Shrine in Higashi Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, on November 19 and 20. A competition is held in front of the shrine between two teams of three young men each. The teams try to be the fir... |
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Hayama-gomori |
Retreat at Hayama. A festival held between the fifteenth and the eighteenth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar at Kuronuma Shrine, Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture. According to a local legend, a long time ago, when the nearby hamlet of Kanisawa was being attacked b... |
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Hayarigami Shinkō |
The faddish worship of kami and buddhas that experience ephemeral popularity based on claims that they provide some concrete benefit or power. The term is sometimes written with characters meaning "momentary-flower-deity 時花神," indicating that the phenomenon sprin... |
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Hayashi Razan |
(1583-1657) Confucian scholar of the early Edo period. His formal names included Nobukatsu, and he had the style Shishin (written with two different sets of Sino-Japanese characters), together with Radō and other epistolary names. His common names included Dōshun, and he was giv... |
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Hayashi Ōen |
(1797-187) Imperial loyalist and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Born on the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month of 1797 as the third son of Hayashi Mataemon Michihide, samurai retainer of the Kumamoto Domain, in the Kumamoto castle town of Yamazaki ... |
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Hayatamanoo |
(Nihongi) The first kami appearing after Izanagi went to the underworld of Yomi and parted from his deceased spouse Izanami, according to an "alternate writing" recorded in Nihongi . Although Izanagi traveled to the underworld to visit Izanami, he broke his vow not to lo... |
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Heiden |
A shrine structure built to hold sacred offerings or heihaku , but most commonly constructed as a link between a shrine's sanctuary ( honden ) and hall of worship ( haiden ). In the architectural style called Gongen-zukuri , when the stone floor of the heiden is constructed at a level be... |
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Heihaku |
Also called mitegura or heimotsu , heihaku in its broadest sense refers to offerings made to the kami . Mitegura is said to carry the meaning of "full storehouse," but in classic works such as Kojiki , Nihongi , and Kōgoshūi we also find the term expressed as hei , shinpei , and ... |
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Hezakaru, Hetsunagisabiko, Hetsukahibera |
[Hezakaru no kami.Hetsunagisabiko no kami.Hetsukahibera no kami] (Kojiki) According to Kojiki , three kami which came into existence when Izanagi threw down armbands (bracelets decorated with pearls and jewels) from his right arm in preparation for purification after his retu... |
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Hi no Oshie |
Teaching of the Sun . A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Sakuma Nikkō (1884-1954; Nikkō means "sun-light"). An affectionate and filial son, Sakuma developed an interest in the afterlife, the existence of the soul and the reality of divine beings ( kami ) after the d... |
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Hi no mai shinji |
Fire Dance Rite. A rite featuring a fire-throwing performance, held on November 20 at Kita Shrine in Kushima City, Miyazaki Prefecture. Dancers are selected from among young parishioners ( ujiko ) and observe a period of strict abstinence ( kessai ) and purification by using a separ... |
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Hi-awase shinji |
Fire-Matching Rite. A festival held on July 14 at Chōkaizan Ōmonoimi Shrine ( Chōkaizan Ōmonoimi jinja ) in Yuza Town, Akumi District, Yamagata Prefecture. Fires are lit simultaneously at Ōmonoimi Shrine, at Omonoimi Shrine in Tobishima, Sakata City and near the top of Mt. Chōkai a... |
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Hi-kae shinji |
Fire-Exchange Rite. Held from the night of July 31 through August 1 at Sumiyoshi Shrine ( Sumiyoshi taisha ) in Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. The festival starts with the summer purification ceremonies ( nagoshi no harae ) held on the thirty-first. On August 1, the po... |
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Hi-kiri shinji |
Fire-Kindling Rite. Held on the night of November 23, at Kanasana Shrine ( Kanasana jinja ) in Kamikawa Town, Kodama District, Saitama Prefecture. In the dark, a sacred fire is kindled using traditional methods (e.g. striking flints, rubbing tinder etc.). A rite carried out with th... |
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Hi-no-mai matsuri |
Fire Dance Festival. A festival held on February 7 at Yatsukaho Shrine, an auxiliary shrine ( massha ) of Toga Shrine ( Toga jinja ) in Ichinomiya Town, Hoi District, Aichi Prefecture. In the shrine precincts ( keidai ) a garden fire ( niwabi ) is lit and, after the intonation of ritual in... |
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Hi-taki no shinji |
Bonfire Rite. A ritual with a long tradition, held at Shimomiya Shrine, an auxiliary shrine ( sessha ) of Aso Shrine ( Aso jinja ) in Ichinomiya City, Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture. It is said that the origins of Shimomiya Shrine go back to the times when the divinity of Aso, lamenti... |
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Hiburi shinji |
Fire-Waving Rite. Held at the San-no-Miya of Aso Shrine in the town of Ichinomiya, Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture, this rite marks the sacred marriage between the enshrined deity Toshinegami, who is the deity of rice, and Hime-gozen. In mid- to late March, on a saru (monkey) day i... |
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Hie matsuri |
Festival held April 12-15 at Hiyoshi—the characters for hiyoshi may also be read as hie —Shrine in Sakamoto, Ōtsu Cty, Shiga Prefecture. On March 1, the palanquins ( mikoshi , see shin'yo ) of two auxiliary shrines ( sessha ), Ushiogu and Sannomiyagu, are carried up to the shrines' hal... |
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Hieshashintōhimitsuki |
This one-volume Sannō Shintō work was written in 1577 by Hafuribe Yukimaru (1512-92), shrine priest ( negi ) of Hie Shrine (Hiesha). Hiesha Shintō Himitsu ki was intended to be a reference guide for the reconstruction of Hie Shrine following its razing at the hands of Oda Nobunaga in 1... |
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