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Shintō Shinshinkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Adachi Taijūrō (1841-1895). Adachi was born in Hikami district in what is now Hyogo Prefecture. For a time he was a member of Kurozmikyō, but he received a divine revelation after nine years of engaging in his own unique form of practice, and al... |
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Shintō Shirei (The Shinto Directive) |
A directive issued to the Japanese government by GHQ on December 15, 1945, the full title of which was "Regarding the abolition of government protection, support, supervision and proliferation of State Shintō or Shrine Shintō." It was informed by the Potsdam Declarati... |
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Shintō Shūseiha |
One of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto. A movement typical of sectarian Shinto ( kyōha Shintō ), Shintō Shūseiha was founded by Nitta Kuniteru (1829-1902). Nitta was born into a warrior family in Awa (present-day Tokushima Prefecture) in Shikoku, and was active in the nationali... |
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Shintō Taikyō |
One of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto ( Shintō jūsanpa ). Government administrative circumstances played a great role in the coming into existence of this religious organization. Before 1940, it went under the name Shintō Honkyoku (its formal name was simply "Shintō&qu... |
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Shintō Taiseikyō |
One of the thirteen sects of prewar Shintō and a typical representative of what is known as sectarian Shintō ( kyōha Shintō ). Founded by Hirayama Seisai (1815-1890). Born in Miharu in Mutsu Province (present-day Fukushima Prefecture), Hirayama was the son of a kendō (fencing) teac... |
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Shintō ameno nuboko no ki |
(Izawa Banryū) A work in two volumes by Izawa Banryū, published in 1720. Banryū (1688-1730) was a samurai from the Higo Kumamoto Clan, and was a popular Shintoist during the middle years of the Edo period. His name was Nagahide, but he went by the alias Banryū. He studied Suika Shintō in ... |
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Shintō denju |
(Hayashi Razan) This is also known as Shintō denju shō . This is a work by the Confucian scholar of the early Edo period, Hayashi Razan, which expounds the secret doctrines of Shinto. It contains a wide variety of doctrine from the various groups of Shinto, based mostly on Yoshida Shint... |
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Shintō gobusho |
This is the basic texts of medieval Ise Shintō (Watarai Shintō). This is the general title given the five works: Amaterashimasu Ise nisho kōtai jingū gochinza shidaiki (or Gochinza shidaiki ), Ise nisho kōtaijin gochinza denki (or Gochinza denki ), Toyouke kōtaijin gochinza hongi ... |
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Shintō kan'yō |
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Shintō myōmoku ruijūshō |
(Hikita Mochimasa) A work in six books and six volumes. It is a work that categorizes the terminology of all aspects of the deities of heaven and earth, and then expounds upon these terms; it could even be classified as a dictionary of Shinto. It contains a preface dated the sixth month o... |
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Shintō nonaka no shimizu |
(Tomobe Yasutaka) A work in four books and four volumes compiled in 1732 by Tomobe Yasutaka. It was printed the following year. This is an introductory text explaining Shinto in easy to understand language from the point of view of Suika Shintō. The author regrets that there are some p... |
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Shintō shūsei |
(Tokugawa Mitsukuni) This is a compilation of Shinto works that Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the feudal lord of the Mito Clan, ordered Imai Ariyori and others to compile. After Ariyori died in 1683, his students Maruyama Yoshizumi, Tsuda Nobusada and others continued the work, and it was co... |
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Shintō taii |
(Yoshida Kanetomo) This is one work of the Yoshida Shintō collection. It consists of one volume, an abbreviated version of Yoshida Shintō, written by Yoshida Kanetomo in 1486 at the request of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who wanted a general outline of Shinto. This work is also called Yuiit... |
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Shintō taiikōdan |
(Yoshikawa Koretari) It is also known as Shintō taii bunsho . It is a compilation in one volume of the lectures given by Yoshikawa Koretari, recorded by a student of his, Fuwa Koremasu. This work was completed in 1669. The topic of the lectures was Urabe Kanenao's Shintō taii . This work ... |
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Shintōkata |
A post within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate of Temples and Shrines ( jisha bugyō ) during the time of the Tokugawa shogunate. A shintōkata had jurisdiction over matters related to Shintō. In the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate strove to extend control over shrines nationwid... |
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Shintōkōshaku |
This is the act of expounding on the Shinto classics and Shinto doctrine to people in plain and easy to understand language, and thus educating and enlightening the masses. Shintō kōshaku is also occasionally referred to as Shintō kōdan . Tachibana Mitsuyoshi, Masuho Zankō, Tamada ... |
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Shintōshū |
Also known as Shosha kongen-shō , it is a collection of about fifty Shintō stories ( setsuwa ) compiled into ten volumes. It seems to have been compiled between the years of 1352 and 1361, but it is unclear who the compiler was. There is a theory that someone steeped in the traditions of th... |
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Shinza |
The place within a shrine where symbols of the kami ( mitamashiro ; see also shintai ) are enshrined. In Shrine Shinto, a building is constructed as a place to worship the kami . Within that building a shinza is established, decorated in a manner appropriate for a dwelling of the kami , an... |
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Shinzenkekkon (lit. Marital Rites in the Presence of the Gods)" |
The term broadly includes all nuptial rites conducted "before a kami ," but in common usage refers to wedding ceremonies performed at shrines or wedding halls by Shintō priests ( shinshoku ). In the Edo Period, there was a conscious association between marital observanc... |
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Shinzō |
Wooden images of kami carved from the end of the Nara period under the influence of Buddhist culture and in imitation of Buddhist sculpture. The trend toward the identification of Buddhas with indigenous kami ( shinbutsu shūgō ) intensified in the Heian period, and statues of honji-... |
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