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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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Kurabe-uma |
Horse racing. Also called kioiuma , komakurabe or keiba . Held as court events from ancient times, but with the Heian period (794-1191) they took on new characteristics such as a display of martial skill by military officials and a ritual for dispelling the "bad airs" ( jak... |
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Kuraokami, Takaokami, Kuramitsuha |
(Nihongi) Other names: Kuraokami no kami, Takaokami no kami( Kojiki ) Kami produced from the blood that dripped from Izanagi's sword when he killed the kami of fire, Kagutsuchi. When Izanagi's consort Izanami gave birth to the kami of fire, she was burned and died. Enraged and sadden... |
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Kurayami Matsuri |
"In the dark festival." Held on the evening of May 5 at the Ōkunitama Shrine in Fuchū City, Tokyo Prefecture. The shrine's main annual rite, it is preceded on April 30 by a purification ceremony (see harae ) held on the waters offshore of Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward; a mirror poli... |
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Kurita Hijimaro |
(1737-1811) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ), Shinto priest ( shinkan ), and poet of the mid-Edo era. His common name was Minbu and his style was Okanoya. He was born in 1737 to a family of priests ( kannushi ) at the shrine Hirao Hachimangū in Kikau District of Tōtōmi Province (p... |
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Kurita Hiroshi |
(1835-99) Japanese historian and Doctor of Literature (D.Lit). Born on the twenty-sixth day of the first month of 1835 in Mito Shimomachi, Hitachi Province (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) to oil merchant Kurita Masafumi. From an early age Hiroshi became a pupil of Ishikawa Meiz... |
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Kurokawa Mayori |
(1829-196) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the Meiji era and Doctor of Literature (D.Lit). Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Imperial University. Born in Kiryū in the province of Kōzuke (present-day Gunma Prefecture), he had the original lineage name Kaneko. He became inte... |
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Kurozumi Munetada |
(178-185) Founder of Kurozumi-kyō. Born on the twenty-sixth day of the eleventh month (December 22), 1780, namely, the winter solstice, in the village of Kaminakano, in the Mino District of Bizen Province (present-day Okayama Prefecture). The third son of Kurozumi Muneshige, a S... |
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