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Nigite |
Also called nigitahe , one type of heihaku , or white cloth or unwoven threads of flax ( asa ), paper mulberry ( yū ), or silk offered to the kami . According to the divine age chapters of Kojiki , when Amaterasu hid herself in the heavenly rock cave, Amenokoyane no mikoto used a number of rit... |
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Nihon Jingū Honchō |
A religious movement with characteristics of sectarian Shinto ( kyōha Shintō ) and founded by Nakajima Shūkō (1902-88). Deeply interested in the study of the traditional calendar ( rekigaku ), Yin-Yang, and the theory of five phases of matter ( gogyō ), Nakajima had independently s... |
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Nihon Seidō Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Iwasaki Shōō (1934-). In 1951 Shōō suffered from jaundice and lapsed into a coma, during which he had a mystical experience; from that time it was said he had gained the ability to experience teleportation and foretell natural calamities. In ... |
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Nihonshoki sanso |
(Ichijō Kaneyoshi) This text written by Ichijō Kaneyoshi (1402-81) and completed between 1455 and 1457. It is comprised of six volumes and three books and is a commentary on the "Age of the Kami " ( jindai ) volume of Nihon shoki . A renowned scholar of his time, Kaneyoshi dra... |
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Nihonshoki tsūshaku |
(Iida Takesato) This text, comprised of seventy volumes and five books, is a commentary of the entire Nihon shoki written by the National Learning ( kokugaku ) scholar Iida Takesato and published in 1892. Referring extensively to earlier Edo period commentaries such as the Shoki Sh... |
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Nihonshoki tsūshō |
(Tanigawa Kotosuga) This thirty-five volume, twenty-three book work is a commentary of the entire Nihon shoki written by the Suika Shintō and National Learning ( kokugaku ) scholar Tanigawa Kotosuga during the mid-Edo Period. Kotosuga finished the text in 1751, and it was publish... |
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Nihonshokiden |
(Suzuki Shigetane) This text, comprised of thirty volumes and one-hundred forty-seven books, is a commentary of Nihon shoki written by the National Learning ( kokugaku ) scholar Suzuki Shigetane at the end of the Tokugawa period. Through the "Tensonkōrin" chapter of t... |
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Niiname sai |
Literally, "First Taste Celebration," niiname sai refers to the set of harvest festivals in November carried out at the imperial palace and at shrines throughout the country. Complements the Kinen sai , a rite involving prayers for a healthy crop and held on the fourth da... |
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Nijūisshaki |
This one volume work was written Kitabatake Chikafusa during the Nanbokuchō period (1336-1392). The text, originally entitled Shoshaji , is a history that focuses on the shrines which held in their possession offerings made by the imperial court to the "Twenty-Two Shrines&... |
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Nijūnisha (The 21 Shrines) |
Twenty-two shrines (Ise, Iwashimuzu, Kamo, Matsuno-o, Hirano, Inari, Kasuga, Ōharano, Ōmiwa, Isonokami, Ōyamato, Hirose, Tatta, Sumiyoshi, Hie, Umenomiya, Yoshida, Hirota, Gion, Kitano, Niukawakami, Kibune) that received special patronage from the imperial court beginn... |
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Nijūnishachūshiki |
This one-volume commentary concerns the Nijūnisha ("Twenty-Two Shrines") during the Muromachi period. Together with Nijūnisha narabi honchi , Shoshinki , Shosha kongenki , and Dainihonkoku Ichinomiya ki , this text is the result of research on shrines conducted by s... |
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Nijūshi sekki |
"The twenty-four seasonal divides." Established to mark precise turning points within the annual seasonal cycle, the nijūshi sekki comprise a calendar divided into twenty-four points beginning with risshun ("the beginning of spring") and ending with da... |
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Nikkōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion whose founder was Teraguchi Kōjirō (1881-1960). Kōjirō's life of faith began at the age of 22 after he experienced a narrow escape from death, and in March 1904 he founded the Nagao-kō (Nagao religious confraternity) on receiving a revelation from a tu... |
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Nikkōsan shinkō |
Beliefs and practices associated with the mountains of Nikkō, the composite name given to the mountains Nantai (2484 m.), Nyohō (2464 m.) and Tarō (2368 m.), situated in the north-western part of Tochigi Prefecture. The founder is said to be Shōdō Shōnin, who built Shihonryūji ther... |
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Ninigi |
[Ame ni kishi kuni ni kishi amatsu hiko hiko ho no ninigi no mikoto] (Kojiki) Other names: Amatsu hiko hiko ho no ninigi no mikoto, Amatsu hiko ho no ninigi no mikoto, Hiko ho no ninigi no mikoto( Kojiki ), Amatsu hiko kuni teru hiko hono ninigi no mikoto, Amatsu hikone ho no ninigi no mikot... |
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Ninomiya Sontoku |
(1787-1856) Agronomist and theorist of the late Edo period. Born in the seventh month of 1787 in the village of Kayama in Ashigarakami District, Sagami Province (present-day Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture) to a peasant family. His formal name was Kinjirō, though after he was em... |
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Nirai-kanai |
The name for the other world across the sea (or, on the seabed) where the deities dwell, and from where they bring both good fortune and catastrophe to the human world. Belief in this realm is found in the southwestern islands stretching from Amami to Okinawa. In most places, this realm ... |
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Nishida Naokai |
(1793-1865) A scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Born as the fourth child of Takahashi Motoyoshi, a retainer of Kokura Domain (in present-day Fukuoka Prefecture), he was adopted by Nishida Naoaki. His childhood name was Shōzaburō, and his epistolary n... |
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Nitta Kuniteru |
(1829-192) Founder of the Shinto sect Shintō Shūseiha. His original name was Takezawa Kenzaburō. Born on the fifth day of the second month of 1829 in Tokushima Domain of Awa Province (present-day Tokushima Prefecture), Nitta was third son of samurai father Takezawa Hishiyō and mot... |
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Niutsuhime |
[Niutsuhime no kami] A female kami and central deity ( saijin ) of the Niutsuhime Shrine in Katsuragi, Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture. The deity may be the same as the Nihotsuhime seen in the legend of Empress Jingū related in a fragmentary passage of the Harima no kuni fudoki as con... |
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