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Jingūzōreishū |
This is a work that contains records of the deities enshrined at Ise Jingū, the offerings to the deities for morning and evening, Mii Shrine ( Mii no yashiro ), divine seals (jinbō), the four quarters, the august pillar of the heart ( shin no mihashira ), offertory platters ( ame no hirak... |
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Jinin |
After the end of the ancient period, and mainly in the case of medieval shrines, this term referred to a member of the kannushi 's or gūji (chief priest)'s shrine workers. This was the name for the attendants or low level shrine priests responsible for religious or administrative duti... |
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Jinja Honchō |
The Association of Shinto Shrines, an umbrella organization that incorporates the vast majority of shrines in Japan. From the Meiji era (1868-1912), shrines were placed under the supervision of government bodies as "sites for the performance of state ritual." In 1946... |
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Jinja gōshi |
In its broadest sense, the term refers to the process of "merging" whereby multiple shrines become one. More specifically, the term refers to the shrine merger policies carried out by central and local government between the end of the Meiji and the start of the Taisho era... |
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Jinja kakuroku |
(Suzuka Tsuratane) This is a work that includes investigative research into the shrines listed in Engishiki ( shikinaisha ) in addition to well-known shrines not on the list. It is the work of Suzuka Tsuratane in seventy-five volumes, completed in 1870. It was published in 1902 (in t... |
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Jinja keimō |
(Shirai Sōin) This work gives an outline of the important shrines throughout Japan. It consists of seven bound volumes, with a separate volume as an introduction. It was written by Shirai Sōin, and according to the introduction by Sōin, it was finished in 1667. It was published in 167... |
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Jinjaengi |
This is a type of record dealing with the origins a shrine and of its connection with the deity enshrined at that shrine ( saijin ), and the relation of the festival surrounding that deity as well as supernatural stories related to the shrine and its deity. There are some records that als... |
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Jinjakyoku |
Bureau of Shrines. A bureau set up within the Home Ministry in 1900, it endured until 1940. It was created as part of the institutional reforms of April 26, 1900, when the Home ministry's Bureau for Shrines and Temples (Shajikyoku) fragmented into a Bureau of Shrines (Jinja Kyoku) and ... |
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Jinjashishoku |
A comprehensive term for shrine ritualists of the ancient period. At the top was the kannushi (here meaning the head of a shrine as opposed to the general meaning of a primary ritualist), or a gūji (chief priest), and below that were ranks and positions down to jinin (a lower-ranking as... |
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Jinjitsu |
A seasonal festival held on the seventh day of the New Year or the seventh of January. One of the "five seasonal festival holidays" established by the Edo bakufu . Because people celebrate by making and eating the nanakusagayu (seven-grass soup) on this day, it is often cal... |
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Jinmyōchōkōshō |
(Deguchi Nobutsune） A work by Deguchi Nobutsune in eight volumes, in which he researched the register of deities ( jinmyōchō , see shikinaisha ) contained in Engishiki . Nobutsune studied under his father, Nobuyoshi, and continued his father's scholastic style of research into te... |
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Jinnōshōtōki |
This is a historical record dealing with events from the age of the kami down to Emperor Go-Murakami, written in a mixture of Chinese characters and katakana by Kitabatake Chikafusa. Along with Jien's Gukanshō , this is one of the two most influential historical works of the medieval ... |
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Jinpōshō |
This is a work, in one volume, that lists the fiefs, such as shrine tenants ( kanbe ), shrine stables, shrine orchards, shrine rice paddies ( shinden ), and myōden (demesne fields) granted to the Grand Shrines of Ise in the Kamakura period, according to the province in which these were l... |
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Jinushigami |
"Land-master- kami ," a tutelary of an area of land. Also known as jigami , tochigami , chi no kami (or ji no kami ), and jinushisama . Land tutelary kami have been enshrined since ancient times, as evidenced by the mention of jigami and tochigami found in the early work Hitach... |
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Jinzanshū |
(Tani Shigetō) This is a collection of Chinese poetry in forty-nine volumes written by Tani Jinzan (Shigetoo), a mid-Edo period follower of Suika Shintō; it was compiled by his son, Kakimori, and completed in 1728. The work is divided into eleven sections: poetry, writings, miscel... |
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Jiun |
(1718-184) Buddhist priest of the Shingon sect in the mid-Edo period, and founder of Unden Shintō. His formal name was Onkō and his style was Jiun. Born in Osaka as the son of Kōzuki Yasunori (author of Ōbaraekai [Elucidation of the Great Purification Ritual]), Jiun took the tonsure a... |
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Jochūsai |
This festival occurs in July, eleven days after the summer solstice, at the shrine Izanagi Jingū in Ichinomiya Town, Tsuna County, Hyōgo Prefecture. The ritual takes place before harvesting and consists of prayers asking for the protection of crops from insect damage. The partici... |
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Joyasai |
An event held at a shrine during the night on December 31st, New Year's Eve ( ōmisoka ). Also called the toshikoshi matsuri (lit., "crossing the years festival"). Joya refers to the "night" of " jonichi ," which in turn is another word for ōmisoka . Unt... |
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Juka Shintō |
Teachings on Shinto as expounded by Japanese Confucianists. These teachings claim the unity of Shinto and Confucianism, or represent amalgamations of the two. With the rise to prominence of Confucianism at the beginning of the early modern period and the simultaneous stagnation ... |
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Junrei, junpai |
According to idiomatic use, the terms junrei and junpai both refer to a form of "circuit pilgrimage" in which multiple shrines, temples or other religious centers are visited on a single occasion or as part of a single journey, but the term junpai appears to have broader ap... |
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