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Mushi-sagashi shinji |
"Insect searching rite." A rite held August 7 at Miho Shrine in Mihonoseki Town, Yatsuka District, Shimane Prefecture. Shrine maidens ( miko ) put on old masks, take up sprigs of willow in their right hands and bells in their left, and pay their respects to the four directio... |
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Musuhi |
Also written as 産巣日, 鬼, 産日, and 産鬼. Musuhi refers to the ethereal workings that cause heaven, earth, and all things to come into being. Etymologically, musu carries the meaning of creation and development, while hi implies incorporeal or mysterious workings. A quick look at the vari... |
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Mutobe Yoshika |
(186-63) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the Hirata school in the late Edo period. Born in 1806 as the son of Mutobe Tokika, a Shinto priest ( shikan ) of the shrine Mukō Jinja in Otokuni District, Yamashiro Province, in what is now Kyoto Prefecture. In 1823, at the age of eigh... |
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Mythological Research |
The Japanese mythology relevant to the study of Shinto is recorded in classical sources from the Nara and early Heian periods. It is often called Kiki mythology ( Kiki shinwa ) and refers to the chapters on the age of the kami in the Kojiki and Nihon shoki . Alternatively, it is also descr... |
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Myōga Matsuri |
"Myōga ginger rite." A rite for divining the fortune of the upcoming year ( toshi-ura ) held January 3 at Asusuki Shrine in Kanegochi Town, Ayabe City, Kyoto Prefecture. On this day, the prospects for the rice harvest of the upcoming year are divined based on the condition o... |
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Myōjin |
"“Eminent deity.” In ancient times, famed shrines of particularly impressive power and virtue were referred to as myōja shinmei (lit. "eminent shrines with divine luminaries"), as seen in the Sandai jitsuroku (901) entry for the 4th day of the 3rd month of 863. The ... |
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Myōjin taisha |
A shrine dedicated to a "eminent kami " ( myōjin ) noted for its remarkable powers. All such shrines were considered "great shrines" ( taisha ) under the ancient system of shrine rankings ( shakaku ). In the Kyoto-Osaka region, such shrines are particularly num... |
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Myōken shinkō |
Worship of the bodhisattva Myōken, who is the deification of the North Star and Ursa Major (the Big Dipper). The bodhisattva Myōken is also referred to as Myōken Daishi, Sonshōō, and the bodhisattva Hokushin. She is prized as the protector of the nation, the suppressor of calamity, a... |
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Nabekamuri matsuri |
"Pot crown festival." A festival held May 3 at Tsukuma Shrine (also known as Miketsu Shrine) in Maihara Town, Sakata District, Shiga Prefecture. This traveling kami festival ( shinkōsai ) is unusual in that the procession is joined by eight girls dressed in Heian period c... |
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Nagoshi no harae |
Also called nagoshi , minatsuki barae , or aranigo no harae , this refers to the "great purification" ( ōharae ) performed on the last day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. A great purification was held at the imperial court on the last day of the sixth and twelfth month... |
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Naijin, Gejin |
The term naijin refers to the innermost sanctum of a shrine's main sanctuary ( honden ), the place where the divine symbol ( shintai or mitamashiro ) that represents the presence of the kami is enshrined. In turn, the gejin or "nave" comprises its outer part. The two areas ar... |
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Nainokami |
[Nai no kami] (Nihongi) A kami worshiped following disastrous earthquakes. The earliest historical record of an earthquake in Japan appears in a poem included in Nihongi 's account of Emperor Buretsu, but the first record of an earthquake kami and its worship comes from Nihongi 's r... |
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Nakae Tōju |
(168-48) Confucian scholar of the early Edo period. His style was Korenaga, his formal name was Gen, and his common name was Yoemon. Born in Takashima District in Ōmi Province (present-day Takashima District, Shiga Prefecture), Nakae was later called the Sage of Ōmi ( Ōmi seijin ) be... |
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Nakanishi Naokata |
(1634-179) A scholar of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) from the early Edo period. His childhood name was Tsunetame; later, he adopted the names Shōshin and Naokata, and used the epistolary name Ramōshi. He studied under Deguchi Nobuyoshi (1615-90), but in 1670 became involved ... |
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Nakanishi Nobuyoshi |
(1631-1699) An Ise scholar from the early Edo period. Born in Yamada, the town at the gate of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū), Nakanishi served there as a kujō ōuchindo (Senior Ritual Assistant). His childhood name was Nobuyoshi, using different charac... |
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Nakatominoharae |
This refers to the ritual invocations of the ōharae (great purification ritual) which was recited on the last day of the sixth and twelfth months by the Nakatomi clan and, thus, came to be abbreviated as Nakatomi saimon (Nakatomi ritual incantations), Nakatomi harae kotoba (Nakato... |
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Nakatominoharaefūsuisō |
(Yamazaki Ansai) This three volume work (also known simply as the Fūsuisō ) was written by Yamazaki Ansai in his later years. The text is a commentary on Nakatomi-no-harae which serves as both a compendium of Shinto thought and as most important text of Suika Shintō. Ansai wrote that p... |
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Nakatominoharaekikigaki |
(Yoshida Kanetomo) This one volume work is the record of a lecture on the Nakatomi-no-harae given at Zenshōin by Yoshida Kanetomo, the founder of Yoshida Shintō. This particular lecture was given in 1490 (second day of the seventh month) and recorded by the Zen cleric Keijyo Shūrin (... |
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Nakatominoharaekunge |
The author and year of completion of this single volume Ryōbu Shintō text are unknown. The title kunge can be also read as kunkai , or even kinge . Although it is said that this is a work by Kūkai, it is believed that the original version of the text was completed towards the end of the Heian p... |
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Nakatominoharaeshūsetsu |
(Tachibana Mitsuyoshi) This three volume commentary on Nakatomi-no-harae was written by the early Edo period Kitsuke Shintō storyteller, Tachibana Mitsuyoshi, and first published in 1662. The work is a compilation of various theories and the text itself is comprised of referen... |
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