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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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Kurozumikyō |
One of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto, Kurozumikyō is considered one of the earliest Shinto-derived new religions. Its founder, Kurozumi Munetada (1780-1850), was born as the third son of a senior Shinto priest ( negi ) at a shrine in Bizen (present-day Okayama Prefecture). Fr... |
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Kusakado Nobutaka |
(1818-69) Member of the Shinto priesthood ( shinshoku ) and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. His common name was Kageyu. Born in the fourth month of 1818 in Hoi District in the province of Mikawa (present-day Aichi Prefecture), Kusakado Nobutaka was th... |
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Kushimitama |
The wondrous soul. Within conceptions of the soul, the kushimitama is a type of soul that brings about mysterious manifestations in human beings through supernatural power. It appears in conjunction with the sakimitama , the providing soul, which is the power behind the harvest. I... |
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Kushinadahime |
[Kushinada hime](Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Kushi inada hime( Nihongi ) The daughter of Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi. About to be devoured by the serpent Yamata no orochi, Kushinadahime was saved by Susanoo in exchange for becoming his wife. Susanoo transformed the girl into a c... |
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Kuwafuri shinji |
"Hoe-swinging rite." An annual festival held April 24 at Nakayama Shrine in Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture. Before the shin'yo (portable shrine) departs, a shishimai (lion dance) is performed in the shrine's front courtyard near the gate in the mizugaki (a fence enc... |
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Kuzuryū Taisha |
A This is a Shinto-derived new religion founded by Ōnishi Masajirō (1913-88). Ōnishi began his religious activities after receiving a dreamn oracle from the deity Benzaiten (Skt, Sarasvati) during a dream in 1954. With a his teaching encapsulated in the words "let us give tha... |
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Kyoto Kokugakuin |
A normal training institute for Shinto priests (see also Shrine Priest Training Institutes) authorized by the Jinja honchō (Association of Shintō Shrines) and operated by the Kyōto koten kōkyūsho Kyōto Kokugakuin, a registered educational charity. This is the oldest of the norm... |
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Kyōha Shintō Rengōkai |
A prewar federation of movements of sect Shinto. Its predecessor was the Shintō Dōshikai (lit: "Society of Shinto Collegues"), which was organized in 1895. When established, the Dōshikai was composed of the eight sects Kurozumikyō, Jingūkyō, Taishakyō (now known as I... |
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Kyūchū sanden |
(Inner Sanctuary of the Imperial Palace) Kyūchū sanden (Inner Sanctuary) refers to the three Imperial Palace buildings located in the southeastern part of Fukiage Park (Fukiage Gyōen): the Kashikodokoro, the Kōreiden, and the Shinden. The Kashikodokoro houses the sacred mirro... |
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Kyūseishukyō |
A movement established through the merging of four branches of Sekai Kyūseikyō that had split from that organization. It began its activities in 1955 after the death of the founder of Sekai Kyūseikyō, Okada Mōkichi (1882-1955). A year before Okada's death, Maki Kinosuke (1894-196... |
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Kō |
This term indicates a group of people holding similar beliefs, but as in the manner of a mutual financing business or loan association, the group is also diverted toward economic goals. The origin of kō lies in the name of Heian period Buddhist text reading and study ( kōdoku ) conducte... |
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Kōgakkan University |
A Shinto university established in response to the destruction of antiquities in the midst of the civilization and enlightenment ( bunmei kaika ) movement of the Meiji period. Its founding principle was the exposition of an ethics and a learning rooted in Japanese history, the prom... |
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Kōikeishō |
The imperial succession. Prior to the Taika era (645-650 CE) the process is unclear, but from the Ōjin era (270-310AD), agnatic succession (fraternal succession, not stem patrilineal succession) was dominant. According to current scholarship, the succession passed to the elde... |
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