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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 |
Although the terms differ, both words denote ranks granted to deities by the royal court. Such ranks were given to individual deities rather than to shrines. There were three basic ranking systems: civil ranks ( ikai ), military merit ranks ( kun'i ), and princely ranks ( hon'... |
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Shin'on |
Divine favor. Boon ( onkei ). It is a term that includes a natural sense of thanksgiving toward kami . Although there are examples where it is used with reference to specific kami , generally it is used in regard to the various kami in heaven and earth, beginning with kami of generation an... |
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Shin'yo |
Also read "mikoshi," and commonly called "omikoshi," the shin'yo is a palanquin or portable shrine used to carry the spirit of a kami in formal processions from its permanent location to a temporary resting site (called otabisho ) for the duration of a fes... |
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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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Shinkan |
Widely used synonymously with shinshoku . In the broad sense, the term shinkan denotes one kind of shrine priest. In the strict sense, however, shinkan and shinshoku are different. Until the Edo period the term was limited to those having qualifications from the Yoshida house, but w... |
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Shinkenhōten shinji |
"Offering the sacred sword to heaven." A rite held on New Year's Eve at Hinomisaki Shrine in Taisha City, Hikawa District, Shimane Prefecture. In this extremely secret and ancient ceremony, the chief priest ( gūji ) lights a divine flame and rigorously carries out purif... |
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