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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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Senge Takatomi |
(1845-1918) Religious practitioner and politician of the Meiji and Taisho eras. Avowed eightieth-generation descendent of the "divine" governor- kami of Izumo ( Izumo kokusō ); chief priest ( gūji ) at the shrine Izumo Taisha; and first leader of the Shinto sect Izumo Ō... |
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Senge Toshizane |
(1764-1831) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Common name Kiyonushi, with epistolary names Kisai and Umenoya, among others. Senge was born on the sixteenth day of the first month of 1764 as the third son of Toshikatsu, the seventy-fifth generation Izu... |
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Sengūinhimon |
A work from the Kamakura period on Ryōbu Shintō; one volume. The official title is Ise daijingū mizukashiwa chinju sengūin himon . It was believed to have been compiled by Ennin, but in reality the work originated at the Jingūji of the Sengū Shrine, Sengūin, in the Watarai District of M... |
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Senjafuda |
Literally, "thousand-shrine-emblem." A small paper label printed with information such as one's name, the date, and place of birth that is affixed to the walls or pillars of temples and shrines by pilgrims. The custom of following a pilgrimage circuit to pay worshi... |
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Senkyōibun |
(Hirata Atsutane) This is a story of the experience of the young boy, Torakichi (Takayama Katsuma), who was lured into the mountains by a long-nosed goblin (a type of being known in Japanese as Tengu) and lived eight years in a village of the sages, and then returned to his own village to ... |
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Senmyō |
This refers to edicts written down in a Japanese phonetic script. Originally this referred to the verbal proclamations of the emperor, but later this term came to specifically refer to the written records of these proclamations. Compared with promulgations written in classical C... |
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Senzo saishi |
The celebration of family forebears. Typically centers on one's parents and the generations preceding them, but there are also observances of honor and gratitude for a founding ancestor. Special veneration was shown particularly in the court aristocracy and the warrior class, a... |
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Sessha, Massha |
Categories of shrine ranking. At present, sessha and massha are not explicitly defined by official regulations, but the terms are widely used as general referents for shrines of smaller scale that exist as auxiliaries under the management of a larger main shrine. In most cases, the ... |
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Setsubun |
"Seasonal Division." Originally, the term referred to each of the days prior to the first days of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Nowadays, however, only the day before the one that marks the start of spring ( risshun ) is referred to as setsubun . The old lunar calendar ... |
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Shagō |
The name of a shrine. At present, seven types of shagō are used. The term Jingū is used alone as a proper name to refer solely to the Grand Shrines of Ise, while other shrines may use jingū merely as one part of their names. Other shrine titles used include -gū , -taisha , -jinja , -sha , and -d... |
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Shajikyoku (Bureau for Shrines and Temples) |
A bureau within the Home Ministry between 1877 and 1900. October 11, 1877 saw the abolition of the Ministry of Religious Education (Kyōbushō), which until then had overseen the administration of Shinto and Buddhism. On the nineteenth day of that month, the new Bureau for Shrines and ... |
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Shake |
A family filling the priestly ( shinshoku ) position at a particular shrine from generation to generation, also called shashika . In ancient times shrines did not usually have professional priests, but as professional priests emerged, their positions began to be passed down in par... |
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