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Aizawa Seishisai |
(1782-1863) Confucian scholar and samurai retainer of the Mito Domain (located in present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) in the late Edo period. Birth name Yasushi. His style was Hakumin, and his common name was Tsunezō, while he had the epistolary names Seishisai and Keisai. An eager st... |
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Aizujinjashi |
Report on the Shrines of Aizu. One fascicle ( kan ). A shrine report compiled by Hattori Ankyū (1619-81) an official of the Aizu domain, at the command of the feudal lord ( daimyo ) Hoshina Masayuki (1611-73). Completed in the tenth lunar month of 1672, Aizujinjashi is a compilation of t... |
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Ajiro Hironori |
(1784-1856) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and priest at the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in the late Edo period. His common name was Shikibu, and epistolary name Yutai. Born in 1784 in Yamada in the province of Ise (present-day Mie Prefecture), Ajiro's father was Ajiro ... |
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Ajisukitakahikone |
[Ajisukitakahikone no kami](Kojiki) Other names: Ajishikitakahiko no kami, Ajishikitakahikone no kami Also known as Kamo no ōmikami; the offspring of the land-founding deity Ōkuninushi no kami, and Tagiribime no mikoto (one of the three goddesses of Munakata, daughters of Sus... |
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Akamata Kuromata |
A pair of grass-clad, masked deities believed to bring yuu (happiness associated with fecundity, fertility, and the like) from Niraasuku (the word for Nirai-kanai , "the Other World," in the local dialect). Belief in the deities is found in many places in the Yaeyama Isl... |
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Akaruhime |
[Akaruhime no kami](Kojiki) Other names: Himekoso no kami ( Nihongi ) According to the Suinin Tennōki , called Himekoso no yashiro no kami (deity of the Himekoso shrine), and wife of Amenohiboko. According to the Kojiki account, a woman of low rank in the Korean kingdom of Silla was im... |
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Akiguinoushi |
[Akigui no ushi no kami](Kojiki) A kami produced when Izanagi threw down an item of personal clothing. According to an "alternate writing" describing this incident in Nihongi , the deity was created from the formal trousers ( mihakama ) that Izanagi discarded as he left h... |
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Akiha Shinkō |
Akiha shinkō originated at the shrine Akihasan Hongū Akiha Jinja in Shūchigun, Shizuoka Prefecture and is known as a fire protection cult. It is thought that Shugendō practitioners were already spreading the faith in the medieval period. In 1685 during the Edo Period, the " mi... |
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Akihiro Ō (Prince Akihiro) |
(195-118) The person who laid the foundations for the medieval Department of Divinities (Jingikan) and the Shirakawa Hakuō house that transmitted the hereditary position of Superintendent of the Jingikan ( jingihaku ). Akihiro was a fifth-generation prince, descendent of the s... |
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Akitsumikami |
Commonly written with the characters 現御神, but other ways of writing this term are the following: 現神, 現為明神, 明神, 明神, and 明御神. All of them are read as akitsumikami . The term is applied to deities who come from the spiritual world and clearly appear in this world. Examples of how this term is ... |
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Akutai matsuri |
"Cursing festival". At the akutai matsuri held at the Atago Shrine in Iwama-chō, Nishi Ibaragi-gun, Ibaragi Prefecture on December 14 (formerly, the fourteenth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar), participants verbally abuse each other as they proceed to ... |
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Amano Sadakage |
(1663-1733) Mid-Edo period scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and samurai retainer of Owari Nagoya Domain (in present-day Aichi Prefecture). His style was Shiken, his common name was Jibu, and he used the epistolary name Hakuka. The son of town magistrate Amano Nobuyuki, Sa... |
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Amasake matsuri |
Sweet sake festival. The festival held on February 10 and 11 at the Umemiya Shrine in Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture, centers on inviting locals to the shrine and treating them to sake. It is called the amasake matsuri and serves as a way of divining the abundance of the new year's harv... |
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Amaterasu |
[Amaterasu ōmikami](Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Hi no kami ( Kojiki, Nihongi ), Amaterasu Ōhirumeno mikoto (or muchi), Tsukisakakiitsu no mitama Amazakarumukatsuhime no mikoto ( Nihongi ) " Kami of the Sun," first of the "three noble children" produce... |
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Amatsu tsumi / Kunitsu tsumi |
These words occur as a pair in the great purification incantation ( ōharae no kotoba ) of the Engishiki . Amatsu tsumi are the eight crimes committed by Susanoo that disturbed farming in Takamanohara (the Plain of High Heaven). These crimes include breaking down the ridges between ri... |
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Amatsukami, Kunitsukami |
" Kami of heaven," " kami of earth." In general, Amatsukami refers to kami residing in the Plain of High Heaven (Takamanohara), together with those that were born in Takamanohara but later descended to the land of Japan. Kunitsukami, on the other hand, general... |
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Amatsukunitama |
[Amatsu kunitama no kami](Nihongi) Sire of Amewakahiko, who learned of his son's death by hearing the wailing voice of Shitateruhime (Amewakahiko's consort) carried on the wind. Together with Amewakahiko's family, Amatsukunitama descended to Japan (Ashihara no Nakatsukuni o... |
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Amatsumara |
(Kojiki) Other names: Amenomahitotsu no kami ( Kogo shūi ) A kami of ironworking ( kajishin ). Kojiki states that as the blacksmith of the Plain of High Heaven, Amatsumara was called upon to refine the iron used for making mirrors, using the "hard rocks of heaven" and the &qu... |
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Amatsunoritohutonoritokō |
(Ōkuni Takamasa) On the Heavenly Norito Prayers and the Divination Norito Prayers . Written by Ōkuni Takamasa. 5 fascicles. Transmitted in manuscript form, it was not published until 1900. Since the text contains a reference to "my late friend, Oka Kumaomi," the work mu... |
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Ame no masuhito |
This term found in the great purification incantation ( oharae kotoba ) of the Engishiki uses the people of the nation of Japan as a metaphor to describe how the population of Takamanohara (the Plain of High Heaven) gradually increases. The word ame is a euphemism that does not necessa... |
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