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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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Shake bugyō |
Within the Muromachi shogunate, shake bugyō was the name of the magistrate office in charge of lawsuits and other issues concerning shrines and shake (which are hereditary families of Shinto priests, also known as shashike ). The term also referred to the magistrate who filled that ... |
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Shaku |
A ritual baton or scepter. While normally read "kotsu," the character 笏is read in Shinto as "shaku" due to a desire to avoid associations with the character "kotsu" meaning "bone." The shaku was originally a baton held in the right hand b... |
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Shakunihongi |
(Urabe Kanekata) This is a commentary on Nihon shoki [see Kojiki and Nihon shoki (Nihongi) ], compiled in twenty-eight volumes around the middle of the Kamakura period by Urabe Kanekata. Based on lectures his father, Kanebumi, conducted for the former Regent, Ichijō Sanetsune bet... |
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Shamusho |
"Shrine offices," the facilities where day-to-day shrine management is conducted. Such offices normally also include facilities for dispensing shinsatsu ("good-luck talismans"), and offices where worshipers may apply for the performance of special r... |
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Shanichi |
An "irregular holiday" ( zassetsu , a holiday celebrated on a day when the sun is not situated at one of the 24 equal divisions of its annual orbit) celebrated on the tsuchinoe days closest to the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. Individually the two are called shunsha (the &q... |
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Shasō |
A general term for Buddhist priests who perform Buddhist rites at shrines or jingūji . Other terms are kusō , gusō , and shinsō , but up to the Edo period, shasō was the most prevalent term. Following Buddhism's introduction to Japan, mid-to-late Nara period Japan witnessed a burgeoni... |
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Shibai |
A popular term for "theater" ( engeki ). Originally the term referred to sacred grounds covered in lawn ( shibafu ) found within the precincts of temple or shrine. From the Edo period (1600-1867) onward it has been used to refer to kabuki or kabuki theaters in particular. Fu... |
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Shichifukujin |
"Seven deities of good fortune," seven deities reputed to bring good luck. Most commonly, the seven include Ebisu, Daikoku, Bishamonten, Fukurokuju, Jurōjin, Benzaiten, and Hōtei (Ch. Pu-tai), but during the early modern period, Fukurōju and Jurōjin were frequentl... |
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