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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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Kannamesai |
A rite at the Grand Shrines of Ise celebrating the divine ancestry of the imperial lineage by offering the "first rice ears" hatsuho of the autumn harvest to Amaterasu Ōmikami on the seventeenth day of the tenth month; the harvest festival of the Ise Shrines. On the day of th... |
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Kannamesai (Grand Shrines of Ise) |
This is largest harvest festival of the year at the Grand Shrines of Ise ( Ise jingū ). The festival's history traces back to the legendary enshrinement of Amaterasu Ōmikami at the present location: during the reign of Emperor Suinin, when Princess Yamatohime-no-mikoto traveled in ... |
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Kannarau |
To learn from the behavior of the kami. The term appears in Kojiki : "My reign is according to the kami ." It has been interpreted as being synonymous with kannagara but it is a more functional expression of its spirit. In meaning it is close to "in conformity with the anc... |
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Kannushi |
In present usage, kannushi is a general term for shrine priests ( shinshoku ). Since ancient times this term has been applied to those who ritually serve kami . It is stated in Nihon shoki that Empress Jingū chose an auspicious day, entered the Iwainomiya and became a kannushi herself. ... |
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Kanreki |
One's "sixtieth" birthday, or alternately one's "sixty first" calendar year (traditionally in Japan, when a person was born they were said to be "one," and at every New Year's Day thereafter turn a "year" older. This leads to an age coun... |
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Kansha |
Official shrines acknowledged by the government in the classical period. The word kansha usually refers to the shrines that received offerings at the annual spring Ki'nensai, which was coordinated by the Jingikan (Department of Divinities). These shrines were part of the offici... |
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Karasade shinji |
Held at Sata Shrine in the town of Kajima, Yatsuka District, Shimane Prefecture, on November 25, the karasadeshinji ( karasade rite) is a ritual for seeing off the kami at the conclusion of the kamiari matsuri (" kami are present" festival). The month when kami from all the ... |
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Karasu sumō |
"Crow sumo." Held at Kamowakeikazuchi Shrine in Kita Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, following the the Chrysanthemum Rite (see chōyō ) that takes place on September 9 (a day traditionally perceived as auspicious in Chinese thought), the day of the chōyō no sekku (&q... |
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Karidono |
Also called kariden . A "provisional hall" used to temporarily house the divine emblem ( shintai ), as opposed to the main sanctuary ( honden ). Such provisional structures are necessary when rebuilding or repairing the main shrine, in cases of disaster, or when installi... |
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Kashima Noribumi |
(1839-191) Imperial loyalist and member of the Shinto priesthood ( shinshoku ) in the late Edo and Meiji periods. Born on the thirteenth day of the first month of 1839 as the eldest son of Kashima Noritaka, who was Senior Chief Priest ( daigūji; see gūji ) of the shrine Kashima Jingū in Hi... |
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Kashima Shinkō |
It is possible to think of Kashima faith as the sect based at Kashima Jingū in Kashima-machi, Ibaraki Prefecture, but it can broadly be divided into beliefs related to water, "tutelary of roads" ( sae no kami ), and Kashima shrines. Many regions and shrines bear the name &qu... |
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Kasuga Shinkō |
Kasuga cult. Kasuga Shrine (Kasuga Taisha) is a shrine located in the foothills of Mt. Mikasa that venerates the divided spirits ( kanjō ) of the kami worshipped at Kashima, Katori, and Hiraoka shrines ( saijin ). Because those kami were the clan deities ( ujigami ) of the Fujiwara fami... |
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Kasugagongengenki |
(Takatsukasa Mototada) Record of the Appearances of the Kasuga Deity . An illustrated handscroll ( emaki ) that presents various miraculous events associated with the Kasuga kami . Ink and colored pigments on silk. Twenty scrolls. This title is also used to indicate the text of this ... |
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