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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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Nakayama Miki |
(1798-1887) Founder of the religious group Tenrikyō. Called Oyasama ("Beloved Parent") within Tenrikyō, Nakayama was born in Sanmaiden Village, Yamanobe District in Yamato Province (present-day Nara Prefecture) on the eighteenth day of the fourth month 1798, as th... |
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Nakayama Tadayasu |
(189-88) Courtier and proponent of imperial restoration ( ōsei fukko ) during the late Edo period. Nakayama Tadayasu was father of Nakayama Yoshiko (1835-1907), the mother of Emperor Meiji. He was born in 1809 as the second son of Provisional Grand Councilor Nakayama Tadayori. App... |
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Nakayamatsumi |
(Nihongi) "Middle-mountain-body," a kami described in an "alternate writing" recorded by Nihongi as one of the five yamatsumi ("mountain-body kami ") produced from the five parts into which the fire kami Kagutsuchi was dismembered by Izanagi. ... |
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Nakisawame |
[Nakisawame no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Nakisawame no mikoto( Nihongi ) A kami produced from the tears of Izanagi, shed as he clutched the dead body of his consort Izanami. This kami was said to be enshrined at the "base of the trees" (Kinomoto) at Uneo on the foothills of ... |
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Nanajūgozen sai |
"Seventy-five trays festival." A rite that takes place in spring and fall on the second Sundays of May and October at Kibitsu Shrine in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture. The ritual entails presenting seventy-five trays of food offerings ( shinsen ) to the seventy-five d... |
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Nanashionokigishi, Nanashimenokigishi |
[Nanashio no kigishi.Nanashime no kigishi] (Nihongi) Other names: Nakime ( Kojiki ) A divine pheasant ( kishi ) appearing in an "alternate writing" recorded in Nihongi 's divine age chapters. According to this record, Amewakahiko was sent to the "Central Land of R... |
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Nanohana matsuri |
"Rape blossom festival." A rite held the first day of the snake in April at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. Ceremonies that function as rites to indicate the start of a period of astinence ( monoimi ) for the festival are held at the shrine... |
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Naobi |
It may also be written as 直毘、直備. The concept of naobi is thought to demonstrate the ethical consciousness of the Japanese people. Naobi means to correct something abnormal, bad, or distorted, and to restore it to its normal or original condition. Naobi also refers to the wondrous spi... |
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