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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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Honmichi |
A religious group founded by Ōnishi Aijirō (1881-1958). Since Ōnishi was originally a teacher in Tenrikyō, the doctrines of Honmichi strongly resemble those found in its parent sect. In 1913 Aijirō came to the conviction that he himself embodied the "principle of the living k... |
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Honoakari |
[Honoakari no mikoto] (Nihongi) According to Nihongi , one of three kami born to Konohana no Sakuyahime after spending a single night cohabiting with Ninigi. Honoakari is claimed as the first ancestor of the clan called Owari no Muraji, but differing birth orders are described in th... |
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Hori Hidenari |
(1819-87) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) from the period before the Meiji Restoration to the early Meiji era. He also had the alias Shigetari, and the common names Yazaemon and Naiki, and had the epistolary names Kotonoya and Taruhonoya. The son of Hori Shigeto-o, a retain... |
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Hoshina Masayuki |
(1611-72) Domainal lord of Aizu (in present-day Fukushima Prefecture) in the early Edo period. His common names were Kōmatsumaru and Higo no Kami, and his posthumous name was Hanitsu Reishin. Born on the seventh day of the fifth month of 1611 as the fourth son of second Tokugawa Shōgu... |
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Hoshinokamikakaseo |
[Hoshi no kami kakaseo] (Nihongi) Other names: Amatsumikahoshi, Ame no kakaseo ( Nihongi ) An astral kami appearing in Nihongi . Ordered by the heavenly kami to pacify the Central Land of Reed Plains, the two kami Futsunushi and Takemikazuchi descended to the Central Land and subdue... |
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Hosuseri |
[Hosuseri no mikoto] (Kojiki) According to Kojiki , Konohana Sakuyahime became pregnant after cohabiting a single night with Ninigi, but Ninigi questioned whether she had actually become pregnant so readily. In anger at Ninigi's suspicions, Sakuyahime built a long parturition ... |
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