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Shikinensengū |
The transfer of the deity to a newly constructed shrine ( sengū ) in prescribed years ( shikinen ). Also referred to as Shōsengū , this major traditional project involves building anew the Main Sanctuary ( shōden ) and other buildings of Ise Jingū, renewing all vestments ( shōzoku ) and ... |
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Shimenawa |
A straw rope hung before or around a site to demarcate sacred or pure space, such as in front of the inner sanctuary of a shrine, at the entrance to the shrine precinct, or at the ritual site. Numerous orthographic character combinations are used with the reading shimenawa , including 一... |
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Shimotsuki matsuri |
A folk harvest festival held in the eleventh month of the old (lunar) calendar. There is a court harvest festival called the niinamesai in which the emperor dedicates the new grain on the "day of the rabbit" ( u no hi ) in the eleventh month, but the date of the commoners' shimo... |
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Shin Nihon Shūkyō Dantai Rengōkai |
(Abr. Shinshūren) Federation of New Religious Organizations of Japan , a legally incorporated organization founded by and for new Japanese religious movements. Established in 1951 with a membership of twenty-four groups, the Shinshūren includes new religions derived from bot... |
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Shin'i, Shinkai |
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Shin'on |
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Shin'yo |
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Shin-nō |
Divine nō theatre. A type of kagura dance. Part of the repertoire of the Izumo line of kagura , found in the classical Chūgoku region provinces of Izumo, Iwami, Bitchū, Bingo, and so forth (that is, the area bounded by Okayama Prefecture to the east and Shimane Prefecture to the west). U... |
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Shinane matsuri |
A festival held August 24–25 at Tosa Shrine in Kōchi City, Kōchi Prefecture. The festival had once been known as the Tosa Boat Festival ( Tosa ofune asobi ). After a ceremony, the portable shrine ( shin'yo ) is taken to the temporary resting spot ( otabisho ) located in front of the shrine... |
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Shinanonosakanokami, Ashigarasakanokami |
[Shinano no saka no kami.Ashigara saka no kami] (Kojiki) Two kami subdued by Yamatotakeru during his eastern campaign. After passing through the provinces of Musashi and Kōzuke, Yamatotakeru arrived at the pass of Ashigara on the border of the provinces of Sagami and Suruga, where ... |
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Shinatsuhiko |
[Shinatsuhiko no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Shinatobe no mikoto ( Nihongi ) According to an "alternate writing" transmitted by Nihongi , Shinatsuhiko was a kami produced at the time Izanagi and Izanami gave birth to the land (kuniumi). As he produced the land of Japan, I... |
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Shinboku, Shinju |
Literally, "divine tree." A tree regarded as sacred, as the symbol of sacred territory or a place in which the kami dwell. As such, the cutting or polluting of such trees is avoided. In some cases, however, the term is used to denote the lumber used in building shrines. Durin... |
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Shinbutsu Bunri |
The separation of Shinto and Buddhism. A series of administrative measures implemented by the Meiji government, designed to prohibit the shinbutsu shūgō (the systemic combination of kami and buddhas, shrines and temples, and their priesthoods) system that had its roots in the Na... |
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Shinchoku |
A reference to Japan as a country that was founded and is protected by kami . Divine lands (of Japan, shinshū ). The first use of this term was in the entry for the tenth month of the ninth year in the records for Emperor Chūai. It is attributed to the King of Silla: "I hear that there is a ... |
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Shinden |
"Divine rice field." A rice paddy where the offerings used in shrine ceremonies are grown, or for otherwise augmenting the various profits of a shrine. Such shrine fields were already provided for as grants from the state under the centralized ritsuryō (administrative ... |
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Shindō Tenkōkyo |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Tomokiyo Yoshizane (1888-1952). Tomokiyo joined Ōmoto in 1918 but left the next year as the result of doubts about the movement, and he developed such antipathy that he came to engage in aggressive attacks on the group. He established his own ... |
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Shingakushokaiki |
This one-volume work, written by Fujitsuka Tomoaki in 1743, is also known as Kyōken senshō shokaiki . Kyōken refers to Yoshimi Yoshikazu. It is a record of numerous questions addressed by Tomoaki, priest ( shinkan ) at the Shiogama Shrine (modern day Shiwahiko and Shiogama Shrines)... |
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Shingun |
A specific type of gun (district), one of the provincial administrative units under the ancient Ritsuryō system of laws and codes that provided services to a shrine. In the eighth century eight such districts were established. Watarai-gun and Take-gun in Ise Province served the Gr... |
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Shingō |
A "divine title" affixed to the name of a kami . A wide variety of titles have come into use in accordance with the unique characteristics of kami , and as a result of historical changes in the way kami have been understood. In the ancient period, the title mikoto was used, whil... |
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Shinji Shūmeikai |
A Shinto-derived new religion strongly influenced by Sekai Kyūseikyō. Its founder, Koyama Mihoko (1910-), received Sekai Kyūseikyō's ritual of jōrei (spiritual healing and purification) while giving birth in 1940, and became a devotee of the movement the following year. She en... |
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