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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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Sannō Shinkō |
The cult that began at Hiyoshi Taisha (Hiesha) at the foot of Mount Hiei. Originally, Sannō was the "mountain kami " ( yama no kami ) of Mount Hiei, but came to be worshipped as the protective kami of the Tendai (Chi. T'ient'ai) sect and of the temple Enryakuji. After the mid-H... |
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Sannō Shintō |
A branch of Shinto that took shape in the Tendai sect, based on the cult of the Mountain King ( Sannō ) at the Hiyoshi Taisha (alt., Hie Taisha), tutelary shrine ( chinjusha ) for the temple Enryakuji. Its early modern doctrines that concern the shrine Tōshōgū are specially distinguish... |
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Sano Tsunehiko |
(1834-196) Founder of the Shinto sect Shinrikyō. Born as the eldest son of Sano Tsunekatsu on the sixteenth day of the second month of 1834 in the town of Tokuriki in Buzen Province's Kiku District (present-day Kitakyūshū City, Fukuoka Prefecture). He studied National Learning ( ko... |
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Sanpai sahō |
The usual way to worship in the presence of the kami (at a shrine) is to bow twice, clap twice, and bow a third time. The majority of shrines follow the guidelines set down by the Association of Shinto Shrines in the Jinja saishiki gyōji sahō (Protocol for Shrine Rites and Rituals). In the ... |
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Sansha takusen (var. Sanja takusen) |
Oracles ( takusen ) of the three deities Tenshō-kōtaijingū (Amaterasu), Hachiman Daibosatsu, and Kasuga Daimyōjin that circulated widely from the middle ages until the early modern period. This term also refers to an object of worship that takes the form of a hanging scroll inscri... |
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Sanshatakusenkō |
(Ise Sadatake) This is a work investigating Sanshatakusen ( The Oracles of the Three Shrines , see Sansha takusen (var. Sanja takusen) ). It was written by Ise Sadatake and consists of one volume. The colophon is dated 1784. Sadatake argued that Sansha takusen , which was popular in hi... |
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Sanshu no shinki |
The general name for the three kinds of treasure said to have been granted to Ninigi by Amaterasu on the occasion of her heavenly grandson's descent to earth ( tenson kōrin ) and handed on as symbols of the imperial throne: a jewel ( yasakani no magatama ), a mirror ( yata no kagami ) and a sw... |
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Saonetsuhiko |
(Kojiki) Other names: Shinetsuhiko( Nihongi ), Uzu hiko ( Nihongi ) A kami who met Emperor Jinmu, befriended him and guided him on his passage through the sea during the emperor's eastern campaign. The kami was said to be the ancestor of Yamato provincial governors ( miyatsuko ) and th... |
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