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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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Ijun |
A Shinto-derived new religion from Okinawa founded by Takayasu Ryūsen (1934-). Takayasu was born in the Okinawan city of Naha in 1934 and, from an early age, played children's roles in the Okinawan theatre. It is reported that, while being evacuated to Taiwan near the end of World War ... |
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Ikeda Mitsumasa |
(169-82) Early Edo-period lord of Okayama Domain in Bizen Province (present-day Okayama Prefecture). Common name Shintarō, and posthumous title Hōrekkō. Born in 1609 to Ikeda Toshitaka (1584-1616), the previous lord of Okayama Domain. Mitsumasa inherited the title of daimyō (... |
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Ikenie |
A kind of offering ( shinsen ) in which a living animal is presented to the kami . A few such living offerings are still conducted today, including white chickens offered at the Grand Shrines of Ise. According to Engishiki , however, a variety of animals were offered in ancient times, in... |
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Ikibina matsuri |
Living doll festival. On April third at Ichinomiyaminashi Jinja in Hida, Miya Village, Ōno-gun, Gifu prefecture, a rite is performed in which seven women are chosen to play the role of living dolls, and are lined up in front of the kami . Afterwards the living dolls throw mochi (pounde... |
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Ikigami |
A person either worshipped while alive as a kami , or revered for his or her exemplary " kami -like" existence. Venerated for their remarkable power and charisma, individuals worshiped as living kami are usually persons of high station, such as the emperor, or individual... |
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Ikugui, Tsunukui |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Tsu no kui( Kojiki, Nihongi ) The deities Ikugui and Tsunukui (or Tsunugui) were paired kami which came into being as the fourth of the first "seven generations of the age of the kami " ( kamiyo ). The name Ikugui comes from iku, which means to b... |
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Ikuta Yorozu |
(181-37) Kokugaku (National Learning) scholar of the late Edo period. Born in 1801 to Ikuta Nobukatsu, samurai retainer of Tatebayashi Domain in Kōzuke Province (present-day Gunma Prefecture). His formal name was Kuniho (or Kunihide), and he used the epistolary name Daichū Dōji... |
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Ikutamayoribime |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) The daughter of Suetsumimi no mikoto and lover of Ōmononushi. According to Kojiki , the attractive Ikutamayoribime had a fine-looking male visitor who came to her each night, yet whose name she did not know. At last Ikutamayoribime became pregnant, and in order t... |
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Imaizumi Sadasuke |
(1863-1944) Educator and Shintoist of the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods. Born on the ninth day of the second month of 1863 in Sendai Domain (present-day Miyagi Prefecture), third son of Imaizumi Tsutayoshi, vassal of the chief retainer Katakura clan. In 1874, at the bequest of his ... |
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Imi |
Imi means abstinence or taboo, or the avoidance of that which is abnormal ( magakoto ), imperfect ( tsumi ) and polluted ( kegare ), and the removal of those states. Originally 忌み and 斎み (both pronounced imi ) were synonyms, in the sense that both meant removing abnormality, imperfecti... |
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Imikotoba |
Taboo words. Special words used by people performing kami rituals, and by those attending them, in the Imperial Palace or in shrines. People used imikotoba for the duration of the ritual in the place where it was being performed in order to preserve the purity of the rite by avoiding ce... |
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Imperial Restoration |
(Ōsei fukko) The overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate and the installation of a system of direct rule by the emperor. The inspiration for an imperial restoration and the movement toward direct imperial rule spread among activists following the signing of the trade treaties with som... |
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Inaba Masakuni |
(1834-98) First superintendent ( kanchō ) of Shintō Honkyoku, one of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto ( Shintō jūsanpa ) and a Viscount ( shishaku ) in the modern system of Japanese court ranks. Born on the twenty-sixth day of the fifth month of 1834 as the second son of Niwa Nagatomi, ... |
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Inadama |
Inadama is the spirit that dwells within the rice plant and governs its cultivation and successful harvest. From ancient times people prayed for a bountiful harvest by welcoming the descent of the Ta no kami (the deity of the rice fields) from the mountains. In autumn, when the harves... |
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