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Man'yōshū |
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Mandara |
Transliteration of the Sanskrit mandala , objects originally of Buddhist origin created to express fundamental doctrines or ideas. Mandala in the form of pictures were used at Buddhist ritual sites, particularly as decorative depictions of the beatific scenes of Paradise. Base... |
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Mano Tokitsuna |
(1648-1717) Mid-Edo-period priest ( shinshoku ) and Shintoist. His common names included Nuinosuke and Tarōtayu, while his epistolary names included Zōroku-ō, Matsukage-tei, Shūsen-ō, and Fujinami-ō. Born 1648 in Owari Province (present-day Aichi Prefecture), Mano was the ... |
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Marebito |
Rare person. A term originally referring to a visitor. Orikuchi Shinobu defined marebito as spiritual entities that periodically visit village communities from the other world — the "everlasting world" (Tokoyo) across the sea — to bring their residents happiness and ... |
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Maruyama Sakura |
(184-99) Politician and literary figure of the Meiji period. Born on the third day of the tenth month of 1840 at the Shimabara domain residence of Matsudaira Tadakazu in the Shibamita Shikokumachi district of Edo. His father was Maruyama Masanao. In 1858 he dedicated himself as a pos... |
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Maruyamakyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Itō Rokurobei (1829-94). Born into the Kiyomiya family in Noborito village in the Tachibana district of Musashi Province (present-day Kawasaki City), Rokurobei was adopted as an heir and son-in-law by the Itō household. Thereafter he wor... |
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Marōdogami |
Guest kami . A non-indigenous kami that visits or is invited by the local community and later resides permanently within that community. The term may also refer to a kami that, although indigenous, has yielded its site of enshrinement within the shrine to a new, more powerful kami and ... |
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Masuho Zankō |
(1655-1742) Shintoist of the mid-Edo period. His original lineage name was Takenaka, and he was given the posthumous name Monaka. He had the common names Yamato and Yamatai, and the epistolary names Taigyōō, Jisetsusai, and Chisoku Ippyōraku. Born in 1655 in Oita District in the pr... |
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Mato-bakai |
"Scramble for the target." An archery rite held on January 15 at Shioji Shrine in Nagasu Town, Tamana District, Kumamoto Prefecture. Bakau means "to scramble" or "to struggle" for something. Following ceremonies that take place on the morning of ... |
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Matsu-no-o Matsuri |
A portable shrine procession ( shinkō ) festival held from the last day of the rabbit in the fourth month to the first day of the bird in the fifth of the old lunar calendar at Matsu-no-o Shrine in Nishikyō Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. Nowadays, the festival begins the fourth Sund... |
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Matsuki Tomohiko |
(1679-1752) A priest of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) of the mid-Edo period. His original lineage name was Watarai, and his epistolary name was Tokugetsu. Matsuki was appointed to the rank of Provisional Suppliant Priest ( gon-negi ) of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) already at the ag... |
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Matsuno Isao |
(1852-93) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and educator in the early Meiji era. Born in Hiroshima Prefecture's Mihara as the second son of Matsuno Hisayuki, a posthumous disciple of Hirata Atsutane. From early childhood Matsuno studied the Japanese and Chinese classics, ... |
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Matsuoka Mitsugi |
(183-194) Shinto priest ( shinshoku ) and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Tokugawa and Meiji periods. Born in the province of Sanuki (present-day Kagawa Prefecture), Matsuoka was the son of Takamatsu samurai Sano Eiji, he became the heir to the hereditary pries... |
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Matsuoka Yūen |
(171-83) Proponent of Suika Shintō of the mid-Edo period. The characters of his given name are also read as Obuchi. His style was Chūryō, and his formal names were Fumio, Sadanao, and Yūen. He had the common names Ryōan and others, and went by numerous epistolary names, including Ryōz... |
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Me-kari shinji |
A wakame (a type of seaweed) harvesting rite held on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar at Mekari (the characters mean " wakame harvest") Shrine in Moji Ward, Kita-Kyūshū City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Before dawn on the old New Year's Day, a shrine priest ( sh... |
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Meiji Kokka Saishi: State Rites of the Meiji Period |
This system of state rites followed the tradition of state rituals as practiced in the era of the ritsuryō legal code of the seventh to ninth centuries and the imperial court polity of the tenth to twelfth centuries, revived and reorganized during the Meiji Restoration and early year... |
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Meiji setsu |
"Meiji Emperor Observance." From the beginning of the Showa era to just after the end of World War II, Meijisetsu was a national holidaycelebrated on the Meiji emperor's birthday to commemorate his virtues. In 1927, at the behest of the Imperial Diet, the Meiji Emperor's ... |
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Miare shinji, Mikage matsuri |
"Divine manifestation rite" and the Mikage Festival. A joint festival of the Kamowakeikazuchi (aka Kamigamo) and Kamomioya (aka Shimogamo) shrines, both located in Kita Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. On May 15 there is a festival known as the Aoi ("hollyhoc... |
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Michiae no matsuri |
"Festival of the Road Gods". A ceremony performed in the ancient period, as stipulated by the Divinities Prescriptions ( Jingiryō ). Intended to prevent evil spirits such as demons and epidemic gods ( ekishin ) from entering the capital, it was performed on the roads ( ōji ... |
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Michinonagachiha |
[Michi no nagachiha no kami] (Kojiki) A kami produced from the belt discarded by Izanagi in preparation for performing ablutions. According to Kojiki , Izanagi cast away the belt as he fled from the polluted underworld of Yomi and arrived at "Awakihara by the Strait of Tachiban... |
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