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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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Jōchi rei |
An edict issued by the Council of State (Dajōkan) in the first month of 1871, confiscating all shrine and temple lands except for the keidaichi . When the daimyō (local feudal lords) returned their domains and the people living in them to the emperor in 1869, the Meiji government began ... |
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Jōshi |
Seasonal festival that takes place on the third day of the third month; also called genshi and jōmi . One of five seasonal celebrations ( gosekku ) established as holidays by the Tokugawa bakufu . This celebration is generally known as hinamatsuri (Doll Festival) or momo no sekku (Pea... |
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Jōtōsai |
An architectural ritual also called ' mune'age ' (roof-raising). This ritual is performed during construction of a new building to pray that there will be no problems with the structure during or after construction. References to jōtōsai can be found in certain Nara period documen... |
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Jūhachi Shintō |
The principles of Yoshida Shintō expounded by Yoshida Kanetomo, as found in his principal work Essentials of Prime Shinto (Yuiitsu Shintō myōbō yōshū ). Kanetomo divided Shinto into the categories of substance ( tai , the three foundations); function ( yō , the three subtleties); a... |
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Kada no Arimaro |
(176-51) Scholar of philological "evidential learning" ( kōshōgaku ) in the mid-Edo period. Born in 1706 in Kyoto, Arimaro was adopted together with his younger sister Tamiko by his uncle Kada no Azumamaro (1669-1736), who was then residing in Edo. Though suffering fro... |
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Kada no Azumamaro |
(1669-1736) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the mid-Edo era, and known as one of the "Four Great kokugaku Scholars" ( kokugaku shitaijin ). Born in Kyoto in the first month of 1669, as the second son of Hakura Nobuaki, a priest and administrator of the shrine Fus... |
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Kaden Shintō |
The Shinto transmitted by a particular house or lineage. As this is mainly to be seen in the houses of hereditary Shinto priests, known as shinshokuke or shake , it is also called shake Shintō (or shaden Shintō , or densha Shintō ). The term kaden (lit., "lineage-transmission&qu... |
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