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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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Ryūkyū mythology |
Two types of creation myth can be found in the Ryūkyūs: the court myth contained in the histories compiled by the Shuri court and the folk myths circulating in Amami, Okinawa, Miyako and Yaeyama. The mythologies contain similarities and differences as well as a variety of motifs; the... |
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Ryūkyū shintōki |
This work is the oldest text on Shintō from the Ryūkyū Islands (present-day Okinawa), and includes in its scope the indigenous traditional religions of the area. This five volume work was written by the Jōdo Buddhist priest Taichū (1552-1639). While in his fifties, Taichū intended ... |
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Ryūsei Matsuri |
"Dragon power festival." This daytime festival is held on October 5 at Muku Shrine in Yoshida Township, Chichibu County, Saitama Prefecture. A tower ( yagura ) and launch pad are built on a small hill behind the shrine. Bamboo tubes about ten centimeters in diameter and fi... |
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Saeki Ariyoshi |
(1867-1945) Historian from the Meiji to the Showa eras. Born in the ninth month of 1867 in Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, to the priest Saeki Arihisa of the shrine Oyama Jinja in Toyama's Tateyama region. Ariyoshi moved to Tokyo in 1882 and graduated from the Research Inst... |
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Sagi-odori |
"Heron dance." This folk ritual performance is a type of furyū dance also known as sagimai . Sagi-odori originated from dances performed to musical accompaniment at Kyoto's Giongoryōe observances, which evolved into the festival of the city's Gion Shrine (now called Y... |
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Sagichō |
A fire festival event usually held around the fifteenth of January. It can be found throughout most of the country, but is referred to by such names as tondo , dondonyaki , saitōyaki , bokkengyō , and sankurōyaki , depending on the region. There is also a fair amount of regional variatio... |
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Sahimochi |
[Sahimochi no kami] (Kojiki) In Kojiki , identified as the "One-Fathom wani " (literally, "crocodile," but now believed to refer to a shark) which delivered Hoori no mikoto (Hohodemi) from the undersea palace of the sea kami Watatsumi to the "upper land... |
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Saiden |
[Sai den] Literally, a "dedicated" or "tabooed" paddy field, namely, one specially reserved and dedicated to the production of sacred rice for use in offerings of grain and ritual sake ( miki ) to the kami of a shrine. While saiden are sometimes found at ordinar... |
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