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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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Sekai Kyūseikyō |
Church of World Messianity . A Shinto-derived new religion that emerged from the Ōmoto lineage. It was founded by Okada Mokichi, the second son of a street vender from the Asakusa district in Tokyo. Okada wanted to be an artist and enrolled in the preliminary courses of an art school, b... |
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Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan |
A new religion deriving from the lineages of Ōmoto and Sekai Kyūseikyō. The founder Okada Kōtama (1901-1974; original given name Yoshikazu) is known as its first generation oshienushi ("teaching master") or sukuinushi ("savior"). In 1959 Kōtama, who serv... |
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Sekai Shindōkyō |
A new religion deriving from Tenrikyō and founded by Aida Hide (1898-1973). Born into a poor family in Niigata prefecture, Aida endured numerous hardships working in the spinning industry, first in Nagoya and subsequently in Takasaki and Tokyo. In 1923 her husband became ill while ... |
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Sekaikan |
The term sekaikan (worldview) is used with all kinds of meanings; here it will be defined as the unique ways in which specific ethnic or regional groups view their environment and their own position within it, in the context of the reciprocal relations they maintain with the transcen... |
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Sekisan Myōjin |
Literally, "Red-Mountain Shining-Deity," one of the "protectors of the dharma" ( gohō ;) in the Tendai sect of Buddhism. While studying Buddhism in China, the Japanese monk Ennin underwent practice at the Shandong temple Sekizan Hokke-in (Ch. Chishan Fahu... |
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Sendaikujihongitaiseikyō |
This is a Shinto work attributed to Shōtoku Taishi that expounds on the commonality of the three doctrines of Shinto, Confucianism, and Buddhism. It is compiled in seventy-two volumes, with a preface and a table of contents (divided into thirty-eight volumes called the main portio... |
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Sendaikujihonki |
A history in ten books arranged in chronological format, mainly centering around events from the beginning of the "age of the kami " down to the reign of Emperor Suiko, with other sections such as Kokuzō hongi appended. The title of this work is also occasionally abbreviat... |
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Sendatsu |
Originally this indicated advanced practitioners of various studies, arts and crafts, and ascetic practices; however, from the end of the Heian period it came to indicate religious practitioners who acted as guides, leading believers to holy mountains and shrines and temples. A... |
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