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Hirata Atsutane |
(1776-1843) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. He had numerous epistolary names, including Daigaku and Ibukinoya, and together with Kada no Azumamaro, Kamo no Mabuchi, and Motoori Norinaga, he is numbered as one of the "four great kokugaku schol... |
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Hirata Kanetane |
(1799-188) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo and early Meiji eras. Born in 1799 in Niiya, Iyo Province (present-day Ehime Prefecture), Hirata's original lineage name was Midorikawa. In 1824 he married Hirata Atsutane's daughter Chie and subsequently becam... |
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Hirayama Seisai |
(1815-9) Founder of the Shinto sect Shintō Taiseikyō and first Superintendent ( kanchō ) of Ontakekyō. He was born in 1815 as the second son of Kurooka Katsuensai, domainal instructor in swordsmanship ( kendō ) for the Miharu Domain (in present-day Fukushima Prefecture). At the age ... |
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Hiruko |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) "Leach-child," a deformed infant born to Izanagi and Izanami as a result of Izanami's mistake in speaking first to Izanagi during their courtship. The child was placed in a reed boat and set adrift. The meaning of the child's name is debated, although h... |
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Hitokotonushi |
[Katsuragi no hitokotonushi no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Katsuragi no hitokotonushi no ōkami ( Kojiki ) A kami appearing on Mount Katsuragi, near the border of Yamato and Kawachi Provinces, and who could utter oracles of good or evil with the decisive speaking of a "single wo... |
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Hitorigami |
A kami which came into being alone. This title is used to discriminate such kami from those that are described as coming into being as male-female pairs. According to Kojiki , Amenominakanushi, Takamimusuhi and Kamimusuhi, the so-called "three deities of creation" ( zō... |
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Hitotsuyama Shinji |
Single Mountain Rite. A festival held every twenty years at Iwa Shrine ( Iwa jinja ) in Ichinomiya Town, Shisō County, Hyōgo Prefecture. The festival is to worship Mt. Miya which is said to be tomb of the enshrined deity ( saijin ) Ōnamuchi-no-mikoto. Further, every sixty years there i... |
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Hitoyo kanjo |
One-night Imperial Servant-girls. A rite held on February 20 at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Nishi-Yodogawa Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Seven girls between the ages of ten and thirteen are selected from the families of the shrine's worshippers to become imperial servants. They re... |
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Hizatsuki |
A type of mat used when kneeling in shrine worship. Also written 膝著 and 膝突. Originally used as a mat for kneeling in an outdoor courtyard during official court functions, the hizatsuki was later adopted for use indoors. Mats called komo or tatami were also sometimes used instead. Used ... |
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Hizuki no Miya |
A new religion of Shinto origin, founded by Fujimoto Toshinari (1930-1989). The founding of the religion is dated from January 11, 1956, when Fujimoto received the following revelation from the kami Amaterasu sumeōmikami: "As currently existing religions are not true, I wi... |
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Hohodemi |
[Hiko hohodemi no mikoto] (Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Hoori no mikoto( Kojiki, Nihongi ), Hoorihiko hohodemi no mikoto( Nihongi ), Yamasachibiko( Kojiki ), Yamasachihiko( Nihongi ), Soratsuhiko ( Kojiki ) Offspring of Ninigi and Konohana Sakuyahime. Called Yamasachihiko ... |
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Hokke Shintō |
Shinto doctrines promoted by the Nichiren sect of Buddhism. From the time of its founder, the Nichiren sect has been very active in incorporating kami cults within its own system. Its Shinto doctrines as they are known today, however, were systematized between the late Muromachi an... |
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Hokora |
Also written 叢祠, 秀倉, 禿倉, 宝倉, 穂椋. A small shrine dedicated to a minor kami . The term may also be read hokura . Originally, the term referred to a storeroom ( kura ) raised on stilts for the storage of shrine treasures ( shinpō ). A passage in the Nihongi notes that "a shrine storehouse ( ... |
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Homudawake |
[Homudawake no mikoto](Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Hondawake no mikoto( Kojiki, Nihongi ) Given name of Emperor Ōjin, offspring of Emperor Chūai and his consort Okinagatarashihime. According to Kojiki , Homudawake was an alternate name for Ōtomo Wake no mikoto. It is also sai... |
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Honaga Mosuke |
(1881-1932) A Shinto scholar (D.Lit) active in the late Meiji and early Showa eras. Born June 20, 1881, in the village of Ōsaki in Atsumi District, Aichi Prefecture, as the eldest son of Honaga Tokushirō and mother Matsu. After graduating from the First Higher School, Honaga entered ... |
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Honbushin |
A religious group of the Tenrikyō lineage which seceded from Honmichi. Founded by Ōnishi Tama (1916-1969), the group originated in 1961 within Honmichi as the Tenri Mirokukai (Tenri Miroku Association). This group claimed that Ōnishi Tama, second daughter of Ōnishi Aijirō (1881... |
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Honchōjinjakō |
(Hayashi Razan) This three-volume collection was compiled by Hayashi Razan at the beginning of the early modern period. The text was finished between the end of Kanei era (1624-1643) and 1645 and was published during the Shōhō era (1644-1647). The first volume includes material on ... |
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Honden |
Also called seiden . The "sanctuary," or central structure of a shrine that houses the seat ( shinza ) of the deity worshipped there ( saijin ). The honden is considered the most sacred space within the shrine, and its sacred doors ( mitobira ) are normally kept closed and loc... |
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Hongakukyoyō |
This two volume work is the magnum opus of Ōkuni (known at the time as Nonoguchi) Takamasa and was finished in 1855 and includes a two volume appendix entitled Gyojū mondō . Faced with increasing Western influence following the "opening" of Japan, Takamasa argued that it w... |
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Honjisuijakusetsu |
The term honji suijaku refers to the idea that the Buddhist deities provisionally appear as Shinto kami in order to spiritually save sentient beings in Japan. The kami are thus the manifestations ( suijaku ; literally "traces;" i.e. the form appearing in the world to save ... |
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