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Inoue Masakane |
(179-1849) Founder of Misogikyō. Born on the fourth day of the eighth month of 1790, Inoue was a samurai retainer of Tatebayashi Domain in Kōzuke Province (present-day Gunma Prefecture) and the second son of Andō Makane and wife Chiyoko. Inoue was adopted by relatives named Tomita o... |
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Inoue Yorikuni |
(1839-1914) Meiji-era scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and Doctor of Literature (Lit.D.). Born on the eighteenth day of the second month of 1839 in Edo's Matsushita-chō, Kanda. His father served as physician to the aristocrat Yokose Sadaatsu. Displaying a high level of ma... |
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Introduction: Belief and Practice |
This portion will address various faiths that had shrines at their center but were broadly disseminated. This will include explanations of mountain beliefs that developed from the medieval to early modern period, kōshin and similar folk cults, varieties of invocations and divin... |
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Introduction: Concepts and Doctrines |
This section explains the basic concepts and terms of Shinto, and gives an overview of Shinto teachings, theology, and the main fields of modern Shinto research. Because Shinto is not a founded religion, it has nothing in the way of a founder's teaching or a divine revelation. The bas... |
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Introduction: Institutions and Administrative Practices |
This section offers explanations of terminology relating to Shintō shrine systems, institutions and administration. The main focus falls on shrine systems, their state foundations and other closely related institutions. An extremely general overview of the characteristic c... |
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Introduction: Jinja |
This section deals with terminology relating to the religious institution of the Shinto jinja , customarily translated as "shrine," including its architectural structures and other facilities, ritual implements, and clerical vestments. Permanent shrine facilit... |
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Introduction: Kami |
The term Shinto is commonly associated with the expression "eight million kami ," indicating the truly immense number of such kami found in the religion, and suggesting the obvious reason why Shinto is usually referred to as a "polytheistic" belief system. B... |
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Introduction: Rites and Festivals |
This chapter deals with terminology relating to Shintō matsuri (ritual ceremonies and festivals). The etymology of the word matsuri has been interpreted as deriving from the verb matsurau , which means to yield to, serve, or give submission to the might of a kami . To wit, the kami inc... |
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Introduction: Schools, Groups, and Personalities |
This chapter covers Shinto-related "branches," "schools," and sects, as well as important personalities related to Shinto. While Shinto is a naturally occurring ethnic religion, it came to be related to national institutions, and also developed deep con... |
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Introduction: Texts and Sources |
This part, divided into two sections, focuses on textual and bibliographic information about works important to the history of Shintō and to an understanding of Shintō thought. After an overview of the genre of "Shintō texts," the first section surveys the significanc... |
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Introduction: The History of Shinto |
This section presents an outline of the history of Shinto from ancient times until the contemporary period, including an explanation of other religions and philosophies that have influenced Shinto, namely, ancient Chinese thought, Buddhism, Onmyōdō, Confucianism, Shugendō, ... |
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Inu matsuri |
Dog festival. A festival of Sugio Jinja in Umamachi, Tsuruoka City, Yamagata prefecture, believed to have once involved human sacrifice. This festival is a ritualization of an oral tradition about a dog that subdued a badger which had been living in the mountain behind the village. ... |
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Inō Hidenori |
(185-77) Shintoist, poet and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Also went by other names including Sanemon, Sanzō and Geki, and used the epistolary names Kōson and Baiu. Inō was born in 1805 in Sawara Village, Katori District, Shimousa P... |
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Ise Shinkō |
Because Amaterasu ōmikami, the principal kami ( saijin ) at Ise Jingū, is considered an ancestral kami of the imperial house, Ise Shrine is the location of imperial devotion. Moreover, since ancient times it has attracted widespread popular faith as a sacred site. Personal offerin... |
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Ise Shintō |
A branch or school of Shinto teachings transmitted by priests of the Watarai clan at the Outer Shrine (Gekū) of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū). Since most of the promoters were clan members ( uchibito ) of the Watarai clan, it is also called Watarai Shintō or, since the view of the en... |
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Isenigūsakitakenoben |
(Motoori Norinaga) A "Split Bamboo" Discourse on the Two Shrines of Ise . A historical investigation into the kami enshrined at the at the two Ise Shrines, the Inner and the Outer Shrines. Written by Motoori Norinaga. One fascicle. Manuscript completed in the fifth lunar ... |
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Isenishodaijingūshinmeihisho |
(Watarai Yukitada) Secret Text on the Names of the Kami at the Two Grand Shrines of Ise . One fascicle. Written by the Negi (Suppliant Priest) of the Outer Shrine, Watarai Yukitada. According to the colophon, it was compiled and presented by the order of the Senior Regent ( Kanpaku ) Fuj... |
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Ishi shinkō |
Stone cults in Japan that may be seen as falling into three general categories: (1) what may be called "stone deification" ( shintai ); (2) belief in a "rock abode" ( iwakura ) to which the deity descends; and (3) the concept of iwasaka , an area that has been encirc... |
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Ishida Baigan |
(1685-1744) A scholar of the merchant ( chōnin ) class in the mid-Edo period, founder of Sekimon Shingaku, the school of "Heart-Mind Learning." His formal name was Okinaga, common name Kanpei, and epistolary name Baigan. He was born in the Kuwata district of Tanba Provin... |
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Ishikoridome |
[Ishikoridome no mikoto] (Kojiki) Offspring of Amanonukato no mikoto, and claimed as ancestral deity of the Kagami-zukuri, or "mirror-maker" clan. At the time of Amaterasu's hiding away in the rock cave of heaven, the deity Omoikane no mikoto had bellows made from a dee... |
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