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Saishi yōgo |
Japanese "observances" ( matsuri ) can be broadly divided into two types, annual observances ( nenchū gyōji ) and rites of passage ( tsūka girei ). The term annual observances refers to a system in which a set of observances is repeated on a yearly basis in a particular socia... |
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Saishu |
A profession established by the court for the performance of ritual at Ise Jingū (the Grand Shrines of Ise). This position only existed at Ise and was hereditarily filled by the Nakatomi family. In later years it was also called jingū kanchō or sōkan . It is not, however, listed in the Sh... |
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Saitenryaku tsuketari saimonrei |
(Kusakado Nobutaka) Saitenryaku, with an attachment of examples from Saibunrei. Written by Kusakado Nobutaka in one volume and one attachment. It was published in 1869 as the Ibukinoya Juku edition. It was revised by Kamo Tsuneharu. Nobutaka was a student of the Hirata school in Mi... |
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Sakaero matsuri |
A rite held the evening of February 9 at Mononobe Shrine in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. Parishioners ( ujiko ) gather at the hall of worship ( haiden ) and chant, " Daimonmae no sakuranbo, yae ni saite ho o tareta, sakaero sakaero " ("Cherry tree before the gr... |
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Sakainokami |
[Sakai no kami] " kami of the border," a tutelary enshrined at the boundaries of settlements, and meant to prevent the ingress of evil spirits and kami of pestilence believed responsible for bringing plagues or other disasters to the community. Archeological excavatio... |
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Sakaki |
Cleyera japonica , an evergreen tree whose branches are used in Shinto ritual, for example, as offering wands ( tamagushi ) presented before a kami . When presented as tamagushi , paper streamers ( shide ) are usually attached to the branch. Branches of sakaki are also used for decorat... |
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Sakaki gidō |
"Sakaki ritual incantation." A rite held on the evening of February 13 at Shikanoumi Shrine in Higashi Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Sakaki branches are collected on Kami Mountain and distributed throughout the village, purifying all of the homes. — Mogi Sakae |
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Sakaki matsuri |
" Sakaki festival." A festival held August 15 at Ōtomo Shrine in Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture. This violent festival is a roughhousing competition, where participants fashion branches of Japanese oak ( nara ) into a pair of rods known as sakaki-sama . All the par... |
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Sakimitama |
The soul or one of its functions. There are various views concerning its meaning/activity. The first fascicle of the Chronicles of Japan ( Nihongi ) records the scene of Ōnamuchi conversing with Ōmiwanokami, his soul(s) of blessing ( sakimitama ) and auspiciousness ( kushimitama )... |
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Samuhara Jinja |
A Shinto-derived new religious movement which began in 1935 when Tanaka Tomisaburō (1868-1967) rebuilt a dilapidated shrine in Okayama. After he had experienced a close brush with death on the frontline during the Russo-Japanese War, Tanaka felt he had received power from a talis... |
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San'nōsai |
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Sanaburi shinji |
"Rice seedling encouragement rite." A rite held some time during the last ten days of June, on the 60th day after rice seeds have been planted, at Awa Shrine in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture. Early in the morning on the day of the ritual, seedlings plucked from the seed bed... |
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Sanbō |
A platform tray used in ritual to hold offerings ( shinsen ). Originally used for making offerings to high nobility or to one's lord, the sanbō is composed of a simple wooden tray ( oshiki ) on a four-sided stand. The name sanbō is said to take its name from the fact that the platform ha... |
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Sangaku shinkō |
Veneration of mountains founded on the view that they are sacred, as places to which the kami are considered to descend and dwell, and as places where the spirits of the ancestors ( sorei ) exist, including beliefs and the rites carried out in their context. Sacred mountains have been k... |
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Sangeyōryakuki |
This is a work from the late Kamakura period that deals with Sannō Shintō . In some instances this work is in nine and, in other cases, it consists of seven volumes and, in addition to the number of volumes, composition of this work varies dramatically depending on the manuscript. In the ... |
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Sangu, Sanmai |
Also called uchimaki . Rice offered or scattered before the kami on the occasion of worship or purification ( harae ), or the ritual of offering rice in this way. According to one theory, the two terms sangu and sanmai have roughly the same meaning, while another holds that sanmai shoul... |
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Saniwa |
An abbreviation for sayaniwa, saniwa is commonly regarded as having originally referred to a purified site called saniwa (沙庭) where a deity was worshipped and its "divine message" ( takusen ) was revealed. As a result, saniwa later came to signify "a person who rece... |
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Sanjinsō |
This word can also be written with Chinese characters that read sanzesō (三世相) in standard Japanese. In Okinawa it refers to a fortune-teller, who can also be called munushiri (Jp monoshiri , "knower of things") or shimuchii (Jp shobutsu , "book"). Fortune-t... |
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Sanjūbanshin |
"The Thirty Tutelaries," a cultic belief in thirty tutelary kami that alternate each day of the month to protect the Lotus Sutra and the Japanese nation. The cult is especially prevalent within the Nichiren sect. The conceptual ground for the cult originated in the Tenda... |
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Sankei |
A general term for "pilgrimage," the travel to a shrine or temple for the purpose of worship. In the ancient period, most worship was limited to the so-called "clan deity" ( ujigami ) of each locality, but from the Heian period, the object of such worship expande... |
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