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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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Kangensai |
"Wind and string music festival." Held on the seventeenth day of the sixth month in the lunar calendar at Itsukushima Shrine in the town of Miyajima, Saeki District, Hiroshima Prefecture. Kangen is an ensemble composed of three woodwind ( kan ) instruments—a flute ( fue )... |
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Kanjō |
Transferring the divided spirit of the kami to another shrine. The transferred kami is then called kanjōjin . Originally a Buddhist term referring to seeking the Buddha's teachings and an invocation to the buddhas in this world to eternally bring salvation to living beings. In Japa... |
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Kanmisosai |
A major rite of the Ise Shrines, performed only at Kōtaijingū and Aramatsuri no Miya, during which either garments ( mi-so ) of light weave ( nigitae ) or of heavy weave ( aratae ) are offered to the kami on the fourteenth day of the fifth (May) and tenth (October) months, respectively—th... |
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Kanmisosai (Mikami Shrine) |
A rite held at Mikami Shrine in the town of Yasu, Yasu District, Shiga Prefecture, on November 15 in which a robe is presented to the saijin (enshrined deity). The gūji (chief priest) offers norito (prayers), presents the kanmiso robe, and performs a sacred dance ( kagura ) called the s... |
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Kannabi |
The place where a kami resides, especially a sacred forest or mountain. The word appears to originate from a term meaning "divine seclusion," and is considered a synonym for the word mimoro , an ancient name for Mt. Miwa. Man'yōshū includes numerous verses that emplo... |
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Kannagara |
Also written with characters such as 随神、神随、神在随、随在天神、乍神、神長柄、神奈我良、and 可牟奈我良. Nagara , made up of the particle na and gara , "true character," is a word expressing dignity. Kannagara has been interpreted in various ways, such as " kami just as they are," "... |
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Kannagarakyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Mizuno Fusa (1883-1970). Fusa was born in Hiroshima Prefecture to parents who had earlier produced nine children, all of whom had either been premature births, stillborn, or died young. After making daily visits to a Koyasu Kannon ("e... |
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