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Iwasaku, Nesaku |
[Iwatsutsunoo no kami.Iwatsutsunome no mikoto] (Kojiki) Two kami produced as Izanagi killed the fire kami Kagutsuchi. When Izanami gave birth to Kagutsuchi, she suffered mortal burns. Enraged, her consort Izanagi drew his sword and beheaded Kagutsuchi. The blood that dripped f... |
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Iwatsutsunoo, Iwatsutsunome |
[Iwatsutsunome no mikoto] (Kojiki) According to Kojiki , one (or one pair) of three kami which came into existence from the blood adhering to the sword with which Izanagi killed the fire deity Kagutsuchi (see also Iwasaku, Nesaku). According to an "alternate writing" de... |
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Iwau |
Written 祝う or 斎う. To maintain taboos or to physically abstain in order to seek the auspicious. It has the meaning of a period of abstinence ( kessai ), maintaining physical purity as a prerequisite for serving the kami . Later it came to be used to mean both praying for auspicious things a... |
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Izaihō |
A festival held on Kudaka Island, Okinawa Prefecture, during the year of the horse (once every 12 years) from the 15th to the 18th of the 11th lunar month. Prayers ( ugandate ) are begun a month before the festival so that it can take place without hindrance or impediment, and when they ar... |
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Izanagi |
[Izanagi no mikoto] According to Kojiki and Nihongi , one of the two kami (together with his consort Izanami) principally responsible for the formation of the world. Various theories have been proposed to explain the name, but it is usually assumed that iza means "invite"... |
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Izanami |
[Izanami no mikoto] Consort of the kami Izanagi. The name Izanami has been understood in various ways, but most interpretations agree that iza means "invite" ( izanau ), while mi means "female." As the kami responsible for the birth of various other kami repre... |
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Izasawake |
[Izasawake no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Izasawake no ōkami no mikoto, Kehi no ōkami( Kojiki ), Kehi no ō kami ( Nihongi ). A kami of Koshi Province (Echizen) with whom then-crown-prince Ōjin exchanged names. Also, the deity of the shrine Kehi Jingū. Legends regarding the deity's or... |
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Izumo Shin'yū Kyōkai |
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Izumo Shinkō |
Izumo Shinkō is the faith centered around the shrine Izumo Taisha in Taishamachi, Shimane Prefecture. The "enshrined kami " ( saijin ) Ōkuninushi has many variant names or titles modifying those names, and from these we know that he was worshipped as, among other things, ... |
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Izumo kokusō |
The kuni no miyatsuko of the ancient province of Izumo (the eastern portion of present-day Shimane Prefecture). Even after the dissolution of the Ritsuryō system, the term has persisted as a title for the position of head ritualist at Izumo Taisha through to the present day. The term ... |
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Izumo Ōyashirokyō |
A sectarian Shinto movement founded by Senge Takatomi (1845-1918) and included in the original thirteen pre-war sects of Shinto. Closely involved with matters of government religious administration around the time of the Meiji Restoration and perceiving the prevailing trends ... |
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Izumoji Nobunao |
(165-173) Practitioner of Suika Shintō in the mid-Edo period, and priest at the Kyoto shrine Shimo Goryōsha. Izumoji's lineage name at birth was Inbe, but he also went by the family names Itagaki and Harubara, and later changed it to Izumoji. His common name was Minbu, and he was given ... |
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Izumokyō |
Although not counted as one of the prewar thirteen Shinto sects, Izumokyō is a religious organization with characteristics reminiscent of sectarian Shinto (Kyōha Shintō). It was organized by Kitajima Naganori (1834-93), who was born into the Kitajima family, one of the traditio... |
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Izuna Gongen |
A kami worshiped by practitioners of the Izuna shugen cult. Also called Izuna Myōjin, this kami is enshrined in the Izuna Shrine at the summit of Mt. Izuna in the district of Kamiminochi, Nagano Prefecture. The Izuna cult first appears historically in the second part of the Kamakura-... |
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Janome shinji |
The janome shinji (Snake Eye Ritual) takes place at the Keta Jinja in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture on April 3. According to tradition, when the enshrined kami ( saijin ), Ōnamuchinomikoto, subjugated the region he dispatched a large snake that was living in the Ōchi Lagoon, and th... |
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Jichinsai |
"Ground-purification rites." Also read tokoshizume no matsuri . This ritual is performed at the commencement of civil engineering or architectural projects to pray that work proceeds safely and smoothly, and that no structural problems will arise after its completi... |
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Jichinsai (Ground-purification Rites): Religious Ritual or Secular Custom? |
From individual family homes to large-scale factories, new construction usually commences only after traditional Shinto ground-purification rites ( jichinsai ) have been performed. Construction itself is a dangerous undertaking, so from the standpoint of the workers involv... |
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Jieidō |
A religious movement in the lineage of Sekai Kyūseikyō, founded by Katsunuma Hisako (1927-), who married into a farming household and became a member of Sekai Kyūseikyō when she was healed of heart disease in 1969. Katsunuma developed paranormal powers and attracted followers, bu... |
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Jihen |
(n.d.) A Buddhist priest of the Tendai sect active in the fourteenth century, Jihen was son of Urabe Kaneaki and elder brother of Kenkō, famed author of Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness). At a young age, Jihen entered the head Tendai temple Enryakuji on Mount Hiei, where he studied T... |
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Jikigyō Miroku |
(1671-1733) Leader of Fujikō, the mid-Edo-period Shinto confraternity dedicated to the Mount Fuji cult. Successor to Hasegawa Kakugyō, the confraternity's founder, and thus responsible for the later lineage of Miroku-kō confraternities. His lay name was Itō Ihei, and he was bo... |
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