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Kuebiko |
(Kojiki) Other names: Yamada no Sohodo ( Kojiki ) A kami incapable of walking but possessing broad knowledge of things in the world. According to Kojiki , a kami arrived from across the ocean at Cape Miho in Izumo, where the kami Ōkuninushi was residing. Since no one knew the identity of ... |
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Kujihongiengi |
(Jihen) Deep Significances in the Kuji hongi . Written by Jihen. Ten fascicles (however, only fascicles one, three, four, five, and nine are extant). Completed in 1332. Also known as Shintō shoki engi . Commissioned by Watarai (Higaki) Tsuneyoshi of Ise, the work aims at clarifying ... |
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Kujikongen |
(Ichijō Kaneyoshi) Sources of Official Matters. Description and explanation of the origins of Muromachi period court ceremonies. Also referred to as Kanabun nenjū gyōji ( Annual Observances Written in the Kana Syllabary ). One fascicle, written by Ichijō Kaneyoshi. One theory h... |
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Kukatachi |
"The Japanese characters are also read kugatachi . This ritual is a type of trial by divine will used to judge the legitimacy or veracity of a person's claim. After the person about whom there are suspicions is forced to swear an oath to the kami , their hand is plunged in boiling wat... |
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Kukunochi |
[Kukunochi no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Ki no kami ( Kojiki, Nihongi ) The kami of trees, called "spirit of trees" ( kodama ) in Engishiki . According to Kojiki , Kukunochi was born after Izanagi and Izanami finished giving birth to the land (see kuniumi ). Nihongi likewis... |
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Kukurihime |
[Kukurihime no kami] (Nihongi) A kami of mediation and negotiation. According to an account transmitted by Nihongi , following the death of his wife Izanami, Izanagi went to the underworld (Yomi) to retrieve her; breaking the taboo ( kinki ) against viewing his dead wife, Izanagi wa... |
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Kumano Shinkō |
The cult that worships Kishū's "Three Mountains of Kumano" (Kumano sanzan ): Hongū, Shingū, and Nachi. The Nihonshoki relates that Izanagi is buried at Hana no iwaya in Kumano's Arima Village, indicating that belief in the Kumano region's mystical connec... |
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Kumanokusubi |
[Kumano Kusubi no mikoto] (Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Kumano no oshihomi no mikoto, Kumano no oshikuma no mikoto, Kumano no oshisumi no mikoto,Kumano no osumi no mikoto ( Nihongi ) The fifth of five male and three female offspring produced as a result of the trial by pledge ( ukei ) ... |
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Kumazawa Banzan |
(1619-91) Confucian scholar of the early Edo period. His formal name was Hakukei (also read Noritsugu), his style was Ryōkai, and his common name was Sukezaemon. As epistolary names he used Sokuyūken and Banzan [also read Shigeyama]. Born in Kyoto as the eldest son of Nojiri Kazutos... |
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Kume Kunitake |
(1839-1932) Scholar of modern Japanese history (D.Lit). Born on the twenty-first day of the seventh month of 1839 to a retainer of Saga Domain in Hizen Province (in present-day Saga Prefecture). In 1871, he was appointed secretary of Iwakura Tomomi's delegation (the Iwakura Missi... |
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Kunaichō |
(Imperial Household Agency) A bureaucratic agency established in 1949 as an external agency under the aegis of the Prime Minister's cabinet. The Agency, as stipulated by Article 7 of the Japanese Constitution, is responsible for Imperial Household affairs dealing with fore... |
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Kunaishō |
(Imperial Household Ministry) Originally, the Kunaishō, which was in charge of all court affairs, was one of the eight agencies established under the ritsury ō system. With the dissolution of the ritsuryō system, however, the ministry gradually lost its actual power, and only ret... |
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Kuni no Miya Kuniyoshi Ō (Prince) |
(1873-1929) Member of the Imperial family. Served as President of the Institute for the Japanese Classics ( Kōten kōkyūsho , later the Faculty of Letters at Kokugakuin University) and for a time as Supreme Priest ( saishu ) of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū). Born July 23, 1873, as ... |
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Kuni no Miya Tomoyoshi Shinnō, (Prince) |
(1824-91) Politician of the late Edo and early Meiji periods. His name is also read Prince Asahiko. The fourth child of Prince Fushimi no Miya Kuniie, he was born in Kyoto on the twenty-eighth day of the first month of 1824. His childhood names included Kumachiyo and Tomi no Miya. Princ... |
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Kuni no miyatsuko |
An officer of provincial government in the ancient period. Among the surnames for the office Atai is most common, along with Omi, Kimi, or Muraji. Both Kojiki and Nihon shoki date the establishment of this office to the reign of Emperor Seimu, but this was probably a contrivance on the ... |
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Kunimuke matsuri |
A shinkōsai (processional festival) held from March 18 to 23 at Keta Jinja, Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The festival name is also read heikokusai . It is a rite that recollects the territorial pacification exploits of the saijin (main enshrined kami ) Ōnamuchinomikoto. A gran... |
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Kunitama |
The spirit of the land. Kunitama refers to the sanctification or spiritualization of the land itself. In ancient times it was considered that the rule of each province was not only a task of human beings alone; it could only be accomplished through the power of the unseen kami enshrine... |
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Kunitokotachi |
[Kuni tokotachi no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Kuni no tokotachi no kami( Kojiki ), Kuni no tokotachi no mikoto( Nihongi ) One of the first kami to appear in the mythical accounts of the unfolding of heaven and earth. Believed to represent the "foundation of the land," the n... |
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Kuniumi |
The birth of the land. The creation of the land by Izanagi and Izanami following the command of the heavenly deities ( amatsukamigami ) to compose and solidify ( shurikosei , also read tsukurikatame ) the floating land. The two deities chose ( mitate ) a heavenly pillar ( ama no mihashir... |
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Kuniyuzuri |
The "transfer of the land." The term indicates a series of episodes in Kojiki and Nihongi related to the transfer of the land of Japan to the descendants of the heavenly kami ( amatsukami ) by Ōkuninushi, a terrestial kami ( kunitsukami ). After Susanoo, the brother of Amate... |
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