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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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Shichigosan |
A celebration for three-, five-, and seven-year-old children. Generally, on November 15th boys aged three and five and girls aged three and seven are dressed in their best clothes and taken on a pilgrimage ( sankei ) to their ujigami (clan or tutelary kami ) to express gratitude and pr... |
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Shichijūgo musubi matsuri |
"Bound seventy-five times festival." An annual festival held September 16 at Togakushi Shrine (also known as Kuzuryū Daimyōjin) in Wara Village, Gujō District, Gifu Prefecture. On the day of the festival, two large floats known as ōyamayatai (see dashi ) are decorate... |
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Shichishitō |
A sword passed down as a divine treasure ( shinpō ) in the treasury of Isonokami Jingū. Originally housed in the shrine and treated as an object of worship, the sword was displayed in the shrine's sacred procession ( shinkōsai ) called the "Sacred Procession of Swords" held ... |
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Shidaidō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Nagahashi Yasuhiko (1895-1981). Its foundation dates from 1931, when Yasuhiko met the spiritualist Matsushita Matsuzō (1873-1947) who was active at the time in Kumamoto. It is said that Yasuhiko had already experienced the gift of clairv... |
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Shidaisetsu |
A comprehensive term for the four main national holidays of the prewar period: New Years, Kigensetsu , Tenchōsetsu , and Meijisetsu , After the Meiji restoration observances such as shihōhai , chōga , shinnen enkai were amalgamated into a protracted New Year's celebration, to whic... |
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Shide |
One type of heihaku , formed by attaching flowing strips of paper or cloth (particularly yū , rough cloth made from the bast fibers of paper mulberry) to a sprig of sakaki , a staff, or a sacred border rope ( shimenawa ). It is usually rendered with a single character 垂 but can also be writte... |
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Shikaura shinji |
"Deer divination rite." A rite held December 8 at Ichinomiya Nukisaki Shrine in Tomioka City, Gunma Prefecture. Participants burn deer bones to divine whether there will be fires in the region. The shrine, in its capacity as the highest ranked shrine ( ichi no miya ) for th... |
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Shikibushoku |
(the Board of Ceremonies) The Board of Ceremonies was created and attached to the Kunaishō (Imperial Household Ministry) in 1884, replacing the original Board of Ceremonies. The original Board was established in 1871 and was responsible for rites and rituals held in the Imperial P... |
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Shikida Toshiharu |
(1817-192) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo and Meiji periods. Born on the twentieth day of the seventh month of 1817 in the village of Shikida in Buzen Province's Usa District (present-day Usa City, Oita Prefecture), he was the second son of the Shinto priest M... |
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Shikigami |
Kami invoked as familiar spirits within the cult of Onmyōdō. Also read as shikijin , or shiki no kami . The shikigami are believed to have originated in the twelve monthly tutelary deities (Chōmei, Kakai, Jūkai, Densō, Shōkichi, Shōsen, Taiichi, Tenkō, Daishō, Kōsō, Daikichi, and S... |
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Shikinaisha |
Shrines listed in the Register of Deities ( Jinmyōchō ) of Engishiki ( Procedures of the Engi Era ), which was promulgated in 967. In the ancient period, the Jingikan (Council of State) compiled a list of official shrines. This list is commonly called Kanshachō (Register of Official ... |
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Shikinensai |
Rites held in prescribed years. Rites of this type are broadly divided into those held at shrines and those held for the imperial ancestors at the palace. Shikinensai held at the palace are conducted according to the Ordinance of Imperial Household Rites ( Kōshitsu saishirei ) of 190... |
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