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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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Amenoakarutama |
[Ame no akarutama](Nihongi) Other names: Ama no akarutama, Toyotama ( Nihongi ), Tama no oya ( Kojiki ), Kushiakarutama no kami, Haakaru tama, Tamanoya no mikoto ( Nihongi ). According to Kojiki and an "alternate writing" transmitted by Nihongi , Amenoakarutama was com... |
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Amenofuyukinu, Amenofukine |
[Ame no fukine no kami] (Kojiki) Fifth generation descendants (or descendant; the two are frequently considered identical) of Susanoo. Kojiki relates that the Amenofuyukinu married Sashikuniwakahime and sired Ōkuninushi. According to Nihongi , he was ordered by Susanoo to del... |
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Amenohiwashi |
[Ame no hiwashi] (Nihongi) Described as the child of Tajikarao, ancestor of the Inbe clan of Awa Province, this deity is said to have planted paper mulberry trees and produced bark-fiber offerings ( nigite ) from them at the time of Amaterasu's hiding away in the Rock Cave of Heaven, an... |
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Amenohohi |
[Ame no hohi no mikoto](Kojiki) The second of five male children produced as the result of the trial by pledge ( ukei ) undertaken by Amaterasu and Susanoo, and known as ancestral kami ( sojin ) of the clans of Izumo. According to Kojiki , this kami was produced from the monozane ("s... |
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