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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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Jikkōkyō |
One of the thirteen sects of pre-war Shinto. Jikkōkyō was based on Fujidō, founded by Hasegawa Kakugyō (born in Nagasaki, 1541-1646) and known as one of several early-modern mountain cults focused on Mount Fuji ( Fuji shinkō ). Organized as Jikkōsha (Jikkō Association) following t... |
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Jindai no maki kuketsu |
(Inbe no masamichi) This is a representative medieval commentary on Nihon shoki in five volumes. Nothing is known of the author, Inbe Masamichi, but the work was finished in 1367. The commentary only focuses on the first two books of Nihon shoki , "the age of the kami ," and t... |
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Jindai no maki moshiogusa |
(Tamaki Masahide) This is a point-by-point commentary on Nihon shoki in five volumes written by Tamaki Masahide. The dates of compilation are unclear. This work, which transmits the orthodox tradition of Suika Shintō, was written down by Ōgimachi Kinmichi, and put into its final f... |
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Jindaimoji |
A general term for uniquely Japanese character arrays or character systems thought to have existed in ancient Japan before Chinese characters ( kanji ) were introduced. Also called " kamiyo moji ." According to Kojiki and Nihongi , in the sixteenth year of Ōjin Tennō's re... |
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Jingi shizoku |
Hereditary priestly clans such as the Nakatomi, the Inbe, the Urabe and the Sarume who served the royal court from ancient times. Except for the Urabe, the members of these clans were all said to be descendants of kami who joined in assuaging Amaterasu when she hid herself in the heaven... |
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Jingidōke |
A collective term for lineages engaging in Shinto as their traditional house occupation. In the early period, these included the jingi clans ( jingi shizoku ), namely, clans connected to the Jingikan such as the Nakatomi and Inbe. In the early ninth century, postitions at the Jingik... |
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Jingifudenzuki |
This work, in one volume, is the first half of the important medieval Ise Shintō text, Daijingū jingi hongi , and this set is completed by Yamato hime no mikoto seiki , which is the last half. Using parts of the classical texts Nihon shoki and Kojiki , it lists the divine genealogy, the var... |
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