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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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Saigusa no matsuri |
A rite conducted in ancient times during the fourth month at the Isagawa Shrine, a subshrine of the Ōmiwa Jinja. A rite of the Ritsuryō ritual system, which appears in the Jingiryō . The name is said to derive from the saigusa flower (a mountain lily; or perhaps ikarigusa or the koshō tre... |
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Saigū |
The saigū was an unmarried royal princess who served at the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū). She was also called the Ise no saiō , sainaishinnō , and itsuki no miya , terms that denote an abstinent or consecrated princess. The term saigū originally referred to the Saiōgū , which was the d... |
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Saiin |
The saiin was an unmarried royal princess who served at the Kamo Shrines in Kyoto. She was also called Kamo no saiō and itsuki no miya , both which denote a consecrated princess of Kamo. The term saiin originally referred to the residence of a Kamo princess, but it also came to mean the pri... |
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Saijin |
A collective term referring to all the kami worshiped at a specific shrine or locale. Since it is generally believed that the objects of worship ( shintai ) in early Shinto were features of, or objects taken from the natural environment (mountains, rivers, ocean, rocks, etc.), the ka... |
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Saijitsu |
Shrine observances can be largely divided into annual rituals that are performed at the same time each year, rituals that are performed at certain intervals such as the 20th year or the 12th year, as well as special observances that are carried out in irregular intervals. The day on wh... |
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Saijō |
[Sai jō] A general term for a ritual site, or any place where the enshrinement of a kami or the performance of ritual worship takes place. At Shinto shrines, the facility may be called either a saijōin or saijōsho , and may be represented by either a permanent or temporary structure. In t... |
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Saikai |
The term sai refers to a state that transcends the ordinary. The term kai refers to the taboos ( kinki ) and regulations that have to be kept in relation to sai , as well as the state in which these taboos and regulations are adhered to. The compound saikai indicates a condition in which kai ... |
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Saikan |
[Sai kan] A structure used by shrine officials ( shinshoku ) to retreat for secluded purification ( kessai ) prior to serving in divine ceremonies. At the Grand Shrines of Ise, separate halls exist for the purificatory retreats of priests known as negi (suppliants or senior priests)... |
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Saikusa matsuri |
" Saikusa festival." A rite held on June 17 at Isakawa Shrine, an auxiliary ( sessha ) of Ōmiya Shrine, in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. The ceremony begins at around ten in the morning. Four female shrine attendants ( miko ) perform an offertorial dance using saikusa no hana —... |
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Saimon |
Saimon , also pronounced saibun , is a written proclamation that is read to the spirit of one or more kami . In days of old, "imperial proclamations" ( senmyō ) were also called saimon . At the Grand Shrine of Ise ( Ise jingū ), saimon refers to a report from the emperor presented ... |
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Saisen |
A type of offering to kami and buddhas, originally given during visits made to express gratitude for the fulfillment of a prayer. Nowadays the term refers to a monetary gift offered as an expression of prayer or worship at temples and shrines. Differing from the offerings made at fixe... |
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Saishi shūzoku |
Traditions, practices, and customs related to festivals and the rituals that form part of them. Rituals and festivals take many forms depending on time, place and the people performing it. Although the term "ritual customs" ( saishi shūzoku ) is used to refer collective... |
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