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Reisai |
The annual ‘major festival' ( taisai ) of a shrine, held on a day related either to the enshrined deity or the origin of the shrine. The term reisai is relatively recent. In ancient times this festival was distinguished from other rites held throughout the year by using the honorific te... |
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Reisai, nensai |
One of the events performed in Shintō for the ancestral spirits ( soreisai ). This event is held a fixed number of years after the funeral to remember the spirit of the deceased and is equivalent to the Buddhist memorial service ( nenki hōyō ). In Shintō the nensai is usually performed in ... |
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Reishu taijū |
"The flesh subordinated to the spirit." A term taken from Ōmoto, a Shinto-derived New Religion. The first sense of this term expresses the principle that the creator deity ( sushin ) Ōmoto Sume Ō-Mikami's creation began with the spirit world and was completed with the cre... |
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Reisō Shintō |
A form of Buddhist Shintō (Bukka Shintō). This doctrine was created in the Edo period by Chōon Dō kai (1628-1695) and further developed by Jōin (1683-1739). The origin of the term reisō ("spiritual source") can be traced to a passage from the Sendai kuji hongi taiseikyō (h... |
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Religious Corporations Law |
(Shūkyō hōjin hō) The Religious Corporations Law was enacted on April 3 1951; it followed the Religious Organizations Law (Shūkyō Dantaihō) of 1939 and the Religious Corporations Ordinance (Shūkyō Hōjinrei) of 1945. The law was enacted with the purpose of giving corporate status ... |
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Religious Corporations Ordinance |
(Shūkyō hōjin rei) An ordinance issued and implemented on December 28 1945 by means of Imperial Rescript 719; it set out rules relating to the creation and registration of religious corporations. It comprised eighteen articles and an appendix and was more simplified in content tha... |
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Religious Organizations Law |
(Shūkyōdantaihō) The first systematized set of laws pertaining to religious groups. Promulgated on April 8 1939 as Law no.77, it was enacted on April 1 of the following year. The law comprised thirty seven articles, and together they spelt the end of state supervision and state cont... |
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Religious Research |
Religious studies of Shintō began in earnest after The Second World War, but before the war some pioneering work can already been seen. The representative of this is Katō Genchi, who in his books Historical Studies in the of Religious Development in Shintō ( Shintō no Shūkyō-hattats... |
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Rengaku |
A festival held the evening of August 31 in which portable shrines are paraded ( togyo , see shinkōsai ) from Togi-Hachiman Shrine to Sumiyoshi Shrine—a distance of about four kilometers—in Togi Township, Hakui District, Ishikawa Prefecture. It is said that once upon a time, Hachim... |
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Renmonkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Shimamura Mitsu (1831-1904). Shimamura was saved from serious illness by one Yanagida Ichibei, who had studied what he called the "marvelous law of things" ( myōhō no ji , an obvious reference to the "marvelous dharma (or 'l... |
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Renshindō Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Tanaka Jigohei (1886-1973). In 1905 Tanaka entered a special course at Jingū Kōgakkan, the Shinto university at Ise, and after graduating went to Tokyo where he studied Buddhism at Tōyō University's Indian Studies Department. While still ... |
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Ritsuryō Jingikan |
The Jingikan was the ritsuryō office in charge of the administration of kami worship. It was one of the ritsuryō government's two councils and eight ministries. The general responsibilities of the Jingikan included the performance of rites for the tenjin chigi ("celestial a... |
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Ritō Shinchi Shintō |
Shintō doctrine established by the early Edo period Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan (1583-1657). Razan was the only Confucian scholar officially employed by the Tokugawa government. Later in his life he wrote several books on Shintō matters; in all of them he briefly deals with wh... |
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Ruijujingihongen |
(Watarai Ieyuki) A fifteen-volume corpus of Ise Shintō thought compiled by Watarai Ieyuki (completed in 1320). Using a broad comparison of both Japanese and Chinese works, the author, a priest of the Outer Shrine of the Grand Shrines of Ise ( Ise Jingū ), attempts in this work to demon... |
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Ryōbo |
Burial mounds and tombs of the imperial family. Current law distinguishes the ryō (mausolea) and the bo (tombs). The former denotes the burial place of an emperor, his consort, mother (empress dowager) and grandmother, while the latter denotes the burial site of other imperial fam... |
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Ryōbu Shintō |
A general term referring to Shintō doctrines derived from Shingon esoteric Buddhism. These doctrines associate the Inner Shrine of Ise with Dainichi of the Womb Realm ( taizōkai ) and the Outer Shrine with Dainichi of the Vajra realm ( kongōkai ); in addition, these doctrines propos... |
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Ryōnogige |
An official annotation of the Yōrōryō , spanning ten volumes. At the order of Emperor Junna, the Minster of the Right, Kiyohara no Natsuno, served as the chief editor of an editorial board of twelve members which included the judge Okihara no Miniku and the legal scholar Sanuki no Naga... |
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Ryōnoshūge |
A thirty-volume corpus of annotations on Yōrōryō , compiled by Koremuneno Naomoto. The present version is fifty volumes of which thirty-four volumes are still extant. Among these thirty-four volumes, volumes one, twenty, and thirty-five have different styles and contents, and ... |
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Ryūjin shinkō |
Ryūjin ("dragon kami ") faith is a form of religious thought and practice associated with dragons, a mythical sacred animal of ancient China. Although Japanese ryūjin worship was influenced by China, the Japanese dragon as an object of faith was a deified snake, a symbol ... |
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Ryūkyū Shintō |
The term Ryūkyū Shintō is an all-embracing term frequently used to refer not only to the Shrine Shintō (see The History of Shrines and Shintō) transferred ( kanjō ) from the mainland since the medieval period, but also to traditional Ryūkyū beliefs that are regarded as primitive form... |
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