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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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Nonomiya |
Literally, the "Palace in the Fields," the Nonomiya was where the saiō , the abstinent princess, stayed for one year before she went to serve the Deity of Ise as the saigū . After the accession ( sokui ) of a tennō , the newly selected princess (either the daughter, sister, or g... |
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Norito |
These are liturgies or incantations, words written in a particular script that are then read by the ritual performer at certain ceremonies or festivals involving the kami . In general the classification norito is widely used to include auspicious words ( yogoto ) as well as the langu... |
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Noritokō |
(Kamo no Mabuchi) This three volume/three book work was completed by Kamo no Mabuchi in 1768. Arakida Hisaoyu titled the published version Noritogoto no kamuga he ; what is popularly known as Noritokō is a copy close to the original but without any of the diacritical marks ( kaeriten ) ... |
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Noro |
The senior female celebrant in villages in Amami and Okinawa. Noro means "to pray" or "to report to the deities," and also refers to the person who engages in those activities. Norokumoi and norokumo also are used, with kumoi and kumo being honorifics. The ori... |
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Nukemairi |
The practice of leaving one's place residence or occupation without permission in order to make pilgrimage (see sankei ) to a shrine or temple. The term was applied particularly to the custom of making pilgrimages to the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) by young serving men or women wh... |
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Nukiho no shinji |
"Harvested rice ear rite." A rite held October 9 at Hikawa Shrine in Ōmiya City, Saitama Prefecture. Dumplings made from grains harvested that year are presented before the altar along with newly harvested ears of rice. On October 29, a harvested rice ear festival ( nukih... |
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Nusubito matsuri |
"Thief's festival." A festival held November 24–25 at Karino Shrine in Kaibara Town, Hikami District, Hyōgo Prefecture. The festival's name is said to derive from the legend that the shrine's enshrined deity ( saijin ) was a thief chased away by the Ōyama deity. Another l... |
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Nyōdō sai |
A festival that begins December 31 and ends before daybreak on January 1 at Ōmiwa Shrine in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture. At midnight, the priest ( shinshoku ) uses a fireboard and drill to kindle a purified flame ( imibi ) to serve as a "divine fire" ( goshinka ). Following t... |
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