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Kamadogami |
" Kami of the oven." A household tutelary enshrined at the cooking stove, fireplace, or other place within the home where fires are normally tended, and generally considered to be the " kami of fire" ( hi no kami ). Frequently, a domestic Shinto altar ( kamidana ) ... |
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Kamei Koremi |
(1825-85) Lord of Tsuwano Domain in Iwami Province (present-day Shimane Prefecture) in the late Edo and early Meiji eras. Son of Arima Yorinori, lord of Kurume Domain in Chikugo Province (present-day Fukuoka Prefecture), Kamei was born in 1825 in the domain's Edo residence. He was ... |
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Kami |
This " kami ," which is written 神人, is not to be confused with kami in general (神, see kami , § Definitions and Typology ). The kami here is considered to mean a kami with a human nature, but it is also used to refer to " kami and human beings." There is no fixed interpret... |
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Kami and Healing |
Today, accounting for illness and healing is the singular role of modern medicine. However, there are still cases in which humans are not necessarily satisfied by medical explanations alone. When confronted with an undiagnosable illness, or an illness which is malignant in natur... |
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Kamiari matsuri |
" Kami are present festival." A rite held on the 10th through 17th days of the 10th month of the lunar calendar at Izumo Shrine in the town of Taisha, Hikawa District, Shimane Prefecture. Generally, October is referred to as kannazuki (the month when kami are not present). H... |
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Kamidana |
A household Shinto altar, a facility for the conduct of family rites at home, in which amulets of the kami , an "apportioned spirit" ( bunrei ) of the kami , and similar items may be enshrined. The place chosen for installation of the kamidana should be clean, bright, and quie... |
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Kamigakari, takusen |
Kamigakari refers to the possession of a person by a kami or other spirit. It is often followed by takusen , whereby the possessed person serves as a "medium" ( yorimashi ) to communicate the divine will or message of that kami or spirit. Also included in the category of takus... |
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Kamigoto |
Kami matters. Antonym of arawanikoto (visible matters). Also used with the meaning of kami rites, festivals. An alternative passage in Nihongi says that Takamusuhi commanded Ōnamuchi (Ōkuninushi), "Let the visible matters over which you have control be governed by my gran... |
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Kamimusuhi |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Kamimusuhi no kami, Kamimusuhi no mioya no kami, Kamimusuhi no mikoto( Kojiki. Nihongi ) According to Kojiki , one of the three kami of creation ( zōka sanshin ), and classed as one of the "separate heavenly kami " ( kotoamatsukami ). Kamimu... |
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Kamiumi |
Birth of the kami . After Izanagi and Izanami finished creating the lands and the islands beginning with the Great Country of the Myriad Islands (see Ōyashima), they gave birth to various kami ( kamiumi ). According to Kojiki , the first kami to be born was Ōkotooshinoo, symbolizing th... |
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Kamiyo |
The prehistoric age of the kami . It is also more simply used in the sense of "ancient times" or "great antiquity." In particular it refers to the age in which the kami were active, based on the myths in the Kamiyo sections of Kojiki (Book 1) and Nihongi (Books 1 and 2... |
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Kamo no Mabuchi |
(1697-1769) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the mid-Edo period. Known as one of the "Four Great kokugaku Scholars" ( kokugaku shitaijin ), Kamo was born in 1697 in the domain of Enshū Hamamatsu (in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture) as the third son of Okabe Mas... |
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Kamo no Norikiyo |
(1798-1861) Shintoist and proponent of Uden Shintō in Edo in the late Edo period. Also known as Umetsuji Norikiyo. Born in 1798 to the Umetsuji family of priests at the shrine Kamo Wake Ikazuchi Jinja in Kyoto. At fifteen years of age he followed his father into the Shinto priesthood an... |
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Kamotaketsunumi |
[Kamo Taketsunumi no mikoto] (Fudoki) Principal object of worship ( saijin ) of the shrine Kamo no Mioya Jinja. According to fragmentary passage from the Yamashiro no kuni fudoki , the kami originally descended to the peak of Takachiho in Hyūga (Kyushu), and acted as guide to emperor ... |
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Kamurogi, Kamuromi |
Terms referring generically to male and female ancestral kami ( sojin ). Examples can be found in the ShokuNihongi , Engishiki , norito , Nakatominoyogoto , Hitachinokuni fudoki , Izumonokuni fudoki , ShokuNihonkōki , and Kogoshūi . Commentators are agreed that the truncated kam m... |
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Kamuwaza |
Also written 神業 and神事, and pronounced alternatively kamiwaza and kanwaza . It refers to that which concerns the kami or the acts of the kami . It clearly refers to rites performed for the kami , as in Engishiki , in the section concerning the officers of the Middle Palace: "After th... |
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Kamuyamatoiwarebiko |
[Kamu yamato iwarebiko](Kojiki) Other names: Kamuyamato iwarebiko hohodemi no sumera mikoto, Wakamikenu no mikoto, Toyomikenu no mikoto, Sano mikoto, Hatsukuni shirasu sumera mikoto. Names referring to the first legendary emperor Jinmu. The fourth child of Ugayafukiaezu an... |
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Kanayamabiko, Kanayamabime |
[Kanayamabiko no kami.Kanayamabime no kami] (Kojiki) According to Kojiki , these kami were produced from the vomit ( taguri ) emitted by Izanami as she lay dying following the birth of the kami of fire Kagutsuchi. An "alternate writing" relating the same event in Nihongi ... |
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Kanbe |
An allotment of households made to shrines under the Ritsuryō system, a system of legal and administrative codes of the early Japanese state during the seventh and eighth centuries. These households were responsible for paying all taxes to the shrine ( so [tax on agricultural produ... |
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Kanbe |
Also read as kantomo and kantomono'o , refers to people involved in rites for the kami . Under the Ritsuryō system, kanbe were low-level appointees to the Jingikan and participated in ritual and miscellaneous tasks. There were thirty such kanbe , according to the " Shokuin ryō &... |
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