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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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Sarugaku, Dengaku |
Sarugaku was the term used for the performing art of nō until the Edo period (1600-1867). It is also used to refer to the older sarugaku before its development into the classic nō . The origin of sarugaku can be traced back to the sangaku imported from China during the Nara period (710-78... |
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Sarutahiko |
[Sarutahiko no kami] (Kojiki)(Nihongi) A kami who went out to the "eight crossroads of heaven" to meet and act as guide to the heavenly grandchild Ninigi at the time of his descent ( tenson kōrin ). Sarutahiko was described as having a fantastic appearance, with a nose seve... |
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Sarutori matsuri |
A festival originally held on the first sarutori ("monkey cockerel") day of the eleventh lunar month, and now held December 4–5 at Tsuno Shrine in Koyu District, Miyazaki Prefecture. The festival is followed by a kagura performance held before a "mountain" m... |
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Satō Nobuhiro |
(1769-185) Scholar of economics in the late Edo period. His style was Genkai, his common name was Momosuke, and he used numerous epistolary names, including Chinen, Shōan and Yūsai. Born in 1769 as the eldest son of Satō Nobutaka, a physician in Okachi District, Dewa Province (an are... |
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Sawatari Hiromori |
(1811-1884) Shinto priest and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Son of Sawatari Moriaki, a Shinto priest ( kannushi ) at the shrine Rokusho no Miya (presently Ōkunitama Jinja) in Fuchū, Musashi Province (present-day Fuchū City, Tokyo... |
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Seichō no Ie |
A Shinto-derived new religion with connections to Ōmoto. Its founder Taniguchi Masaharu (1893-1985) joined Ōmoto in 1918 and worked as an editor for its newsletter Shinreikai, but in the aftermath of the first Ōmoto incident of 1925, he left the movement and joined Asano Wasaburō&... |
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Seihakusai |
"Young oak festival." A festival held May 13–15 at Ōtokonushi Shrine in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The name comes from the fact that the special food offerings ( shinsen ) are presented piled up branches of young oak ( aokashira , characters that can also be read seih... |
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Seikōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Fujita Nobuhiko (1889-1977). Fujita was born in Hiroshima as the eldest son of Fujita Shizukana and Fujita Toku; his mother was said to possess paranormal powers. Fujita became a member of Shinrikyō and in due course became head of that group... |
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Seimeikyō |
A new religion deriving from Sekai Kyūseikyō. In 1955 Kihara Yoshihiko, an Ōmoto devotee from the Sekai Kyūseikyō's branch church Kōtama Daikyōkai, dissolved this group's relationship with Kyūseikyō, declared the group's independence and set up a new religious organization na... |
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Seiryū Gongen |
Other names: Seirō Gongen Literally "Clear-Falls-Avatar," this deity was one of the "protectors of the dharma" ( gohō ;) in the Shingon sect of Buddhism, and tutelary of the temple Daigoji in Kyoto. Originally a tutelary of the "Blue Dragon Temple"... |
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Seishin Myōjōkai |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Fujita Motonari (1903-85), who began to engage in independent religious activities in April 1946 after taking office as the head priest ( gūji ) of the In'yōseki Shrine in Fukuyama City in Hiroshima prefecture, One of Fujita's grandfathers ... |
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Seisō, Reisō, Jōsō |
Three grades of clerical vestments. Today, the formal seisō is worn at "large-scale festivals" ( taisai ); the ritual reisō is worn at "medium-scale festivals" ( chūsai ), and the jōsō is worn at "small-scale festivals" ( shōsai ). Vestments for ma... |
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