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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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Higoto asayū ōmike sai |
A celebration at the Grand Shrines of Ise ( Ise Jingū ) in which sacred food is offered twice daily, in the morning and evening, to Amaterasu Ōmikami and other deities. Also referred to as the regular sacred offering ( jōten mike ), this celebration corresponds to the daily offering ( On... |
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Hikari Kyōkai |
A new religion derived from Ōmoto. It was founded by the painter Okamoto Tenmei (1897-1963), who had been the senior editor of the periodical published by Ōmoto between 1923 and 1935. Okamoto's separation from Ōmoto and his own, independent religious activities were initiated by t... |
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Hikiai-mochi shinji |
"Tug-of-war over mochi rite." A rite at the Hachiman Shrine in Gose City, Nara Prefecture, held on the ninth day of the ninth month of the old lunar calendar. Six large round cakes of mochi are placed in straw bags called kogutsu . The kogutsu are tightly bound with cords and p... |
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Hikime shinji |
"Whistling arrow rite." Held on February 4 at the Chūgūshi shrine attached to Futara-san Shrine in Nikkō City, Tochigi Prefecture, this archery ritual is meant to dispel demons at setsubun . Following the ceremony, prayers for the protection of the nation are read while ... |
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Hikimen Gokitō |
"Whistling invocations." An archery rite held at the shrine Fūrō-gū in Ōkawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture, from the twenty-eight day of the third month to the second day of the fourth month of the old lunar calendar. Shrine officials ( shinshoku ) take up bows and arrows refer... |
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Hikosan shinkō |
Beliefs and practices associated with Mt Hiko, in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu. Hiko is made up of three peaks: Minamidake, Nakadake, and Kitadake, the highest of which is Minamidake at 1200 m. Formerly "Hiko" was written with the characters 日子, meani... |
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Himegami |
A female kami ("goddess"). An extant fragment of the Tsukushi no kuni fudoki describes the three separate peaks of the mountain Kishimayama in the following way: "The peak to the southwest is called the hikogami (male- kami ), the middle peak is called the himegami (... |
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Himorogi |
Originating in ancient times, himorogi refers to a temporarily erected sacred space or "altar" used as a locus of worship. Today, himorogi are represented by the demarcation of a physical area with branches of green bamboo or sakaki at the four corners, between which are ... |
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Himuro matsuri |
"Ice storehouse festival." This rite is held from the night of May 31 to early morning on June 1 at Yatsushiro Shrine in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture. Newlyweds, individuals born in an inauspicious year ( yakudoshi ), and those celebrating their sixtieth birthd... |
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Hinerikiri matsuri |
"Pinching festival." A buttock-pinching festival held August 21-22 at Ukishima Shrine in the town of Tabuse, Kumage District, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The festival is so-named because women who visit the shrine have their buttocks pinched. It is said that getting pinc... |
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Hinkoko matsuri |
A festival held on April 15 at Ōyada Shrine in Mino City, Gifu Prefecture. Hinkoko means doll. Thirty two-meter-tall dolls are woven from bamboo representing Susanoo and peasants, and another doll is made of the great serpent Orochi (see Yamatanoorochi). At night, the dolls drive O... |
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Hinokami |
[Hi no kami] " Kami of fire," a kami with dominion over the nature and use of fire. According to the Kojiki and Nihongi , the kami called Homusubi or Kagutsuchi was the original kami of fire, and this kami became the object of popular cultic faith as a tutelary of protection fro... |
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Hinokuma, Kunikakasu |
[Hinokuma no kami.Kunikakasu no kami] (Nihongi) Central kami ( saijin ) at the Hinokuma Kunikakasu Shrines. At the time of Amaterasu's retreat into the rock cave of heaven, the kami Ishikoridome cast a "sun-image mirror," but his first attempt was imperfect. This first ... |
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Hinukan |
"Fire deity." A folk belief spread throughout Amami and Okinawa. the original objects of worship as suggested by the variant name umichimon (lit., "honored three things") were three fieldstones, which were used to create a hearth in its primordial form; the ... |
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