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Hosusori |
[Hosusori no mikoto] (Nihongi) According to the main text of Nihongi , one of three kami born to Ninigi and Ōyamatsumi's daughter Kamuatatsuhime (Konohana Sakuyahime). Sakuyahime set fire to her parturition hut and there gave birth to three kami , of whom Hosusori was the first, bor... |
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Hote matsuri |
Sail-cord Festival. A festival held on March 10 at Shiogama Shrine ( Shiogama jinja ) in Shiogama City, Miyazaki Prefecture. Beginning two days before the festival, sacred dance and music ( kagura ), a shrine priestess festival, Yamato dances are performed at the Ceremonial Hall ( h... |
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How to Become a Shinto Priest |
The majority of Shinto priests are affiliated with the Association of Shinto Shrines ( jinja honchō ), meaning the most common way to formally become a Shinto priest, is to complete a training course established by the Association. For those who have not yet graduated high school, th... |
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Hōbei |
Offerings of heihaku made to shrines and imperial tombs by order of the emperor. The term also refers to an envoy who bore these offerings, (alternatively called the hōbeishi ). The characters can also be read as hōhei . Sometimes this was offered to only one shrine, while on other occa... |
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Hōbeisai |
A rite in which heihaku offerings are presented to the kami by the emperor or the state. There are both annual and occasional versions of hōbeisai. The Jingiryō establishes nineteen annual hōbeisai, beginning with kinensai in spring. It also sets down that "offerings, rites a... |
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Hōbeishi |
The general name for envoys who carry offerings ( heihaku ) to royal mausolea and kami at the command of the emperor. There are various types of envoy including the general category of hōbeishi , reiheishi (who carry offerings to Ise Shrine) and yoshinohōbeishi (who serve as envoys to ... |
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Hōnen matsuri |
Good Harvest Festival. A festival held at Ōagata Shrine ( Ōagata jinja ) in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture. The Sunday closest to March 15 is the festival day. Also called the Hime no Miya Hōnen Festival. The festival complements the Good Harvest Festival of Tagata Shrine and is famou... |
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Hōnō |
The dedication of a votive object or the presentation of a performance with the aim of entreating Shinto and Buddhist deities through prayer or of expressing feelings such as gratitude to them. Together with practices that include praying at shrines and temples, visiting a temple t... |
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Hōsōgami |
"Smallpox kami ," a kami believed responsible for the spread of epidemics of smallpox ( hōsō ). Alternately, a tutelary of smallpox with the power to prevent such epidemics. The first smallpox innoculation center in Edo was established in 1858, but until such centers wer... |
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Ichijō Kaneyoshi |
(142-81) Courtier and scholar of the mid-Muromachi period (ca. mid-fourteenth to late-sixteenth centuries). Epistolary names included Tōka Rōjin, Sankan Rōjin and Tōsai, while his common name was Kanera. Ichijō was born on the twenty-seventh day of the fifth month of 1402 to kan... |
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Ichikishimahime |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Sayoribime no mikoto ( Kojiki ) One of the three female kami produced as a result of the trial by pledge ( ukei ) between Amaterasu and Susanoo, Ichikishimahime is enshrined at the Hetsugū, one of three shrines at the Munakata Taisha in the old province o... |
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Ichinokami |
[Ichi no kami] Tutelary kami of the marketplace, believed to protect trade and marketplace order and to bring prosperity. Also known as Ichihime. No specific kami originally existed as an object of worship ( saijin ) in the role of marketplace kami , but the concept of a tutelary of the ... |
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Ichinomiya / Sōja |
Ichinomiya , (literally first shrine) is a shrine occupying the highest rank among the shrines of a province. A sōja is the shrine established in each province which collectively enshrines all of the deities being worshipped at other shrines within the province. Sōja was originall... |
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Ichinomiya junkeiki |
(Tachibana Mitsuyoshi) Pilgrimage Record to the Ichinomiya Shrines . Travel account. This work is an account by the early Edo period Shinto scholar Tachibana Mitsuyoshi of his travels on a twenty-three year pilgrimage to the Ichinomiya shrines (most prominent shrine in each prov... |
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Ichirei shikon |
Literally, "one spirit, four souls." According to Shinto doctrine, the spirit ( reikon ) of both kami and human beings is made up of one spirit and four souls. The spirit is called naobi , and the four souls are the turbulent ( aramitama ), the tranquil ( nigimitama ), the prop... |
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Idori-matsuri |
A rite held on the evening of November seventh at Sugawara Jinja in Noto-chō, Fugeshi-gun, Ishikawa prefecture, in which a mochi (cake of pounded rice) is handed from one group to another in the worship hall. On November first is a kuchiake matsuri (mouth-opening festival). On the th... |
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Ienokami |
[Ie no kami] " Kami of the home." In general, any kami acting as a tutelary of and bringing prosperity to the home. A wide variety of kami are enshrined (see saijin ) in the role of " kami of the home," however, making it difficult to comprehend them in any systematic ... |
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Igomori matsuri |
Seclusion festival. A festival held from March eleventh to thirteenth at Tosa Jinja in Kōchi City, Kōchi prefecture. From the evening of March first the gūji (head priest) and shinshoku (shrine priests) enter into a period of monoimi (purificatory abstinence) On the afternoon of t... |
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Ihika |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) A chthonic kami ( kunitsukami ) depicted as having a tail, and which appeared from a glowing well or spring during Emperor Jinmu's eastern campaign. Both Nihongi and Kojiki state that he was the ancestor of the indigenous Yoshino no Obito peoples. The motif of a &qu... |
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Iida Takesato |
(1827-19) A scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and follower of the teachings of Hirata Atsutane (1176-1843). Iida was born on the sixth day of the twelfth month of 1827 in the Edo residence of the lord of Shinano Takashima Domain (of the Suwa clan, holders of 30,000 koku, part of p... |
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