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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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Shioyu |
"Tidal bath." A portable shrine ( shin'yo ) purification rite held the 14th day of the sixth lunar month at Sumiyoshi Shrine (Sumiyoshi Taisha) in Sumiyoshi Ward, Ōsaka City, Ōsaka Prefecture. The shrine to be used in the "last the summer" festival ( nagoshi ma... |
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Shioyutori shinji |
"Saltwater fetching rite." A rite for fetching saltwater held August 4 at Kitaoka Shrine in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture. The rite immediately precedes the annual portable shrine procession (see shinkōsai ) ceremony. Early in the morning, priests ( shinshoku ... |
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Shirasu |
A verb meaning "to possess, to rule and to govern." Shirasu is a compound of the verb shiru, to govern, with the honorific verbal suffix su . There are numerous examples of its use as shirashimesu and shiroshimesu , meaning "to rule, to govern." There are many exa... |
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Shirihineri matsuri |
"Bottom-pinching festival." A festival held on June 14 at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya City, Hyōgo Prefecture. The origins of this festival are based on folklore. According to leged, Ebisu, the kami enshrined here ( saijin ), dozed off while he was making his way t... |
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Shiritsumami matsuri |
"Buttock pinching festival." A festival held November 10 at Otonashi ("no sound") Shrine in Itō City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Because the rite is held in complete darkness with even speaking strictly forbidden, participants pinch one another's bottoms as th... |
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Shiroki, Kuroki |
Literally, "white rice wine" and "black rice wine." Types of sacred wine ( omiki ) used in Shinto offerings ( shinsen ). Ki is an ancient term for rice wine ( sake ). According to the section of the Engishiki onthe palace brewmaster ( mikizukasa ), shiroki is a &quo... |
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Shirongo masturi |
A festival for women divers ( ama ) held July 11 at Shirohige Shrine in Toba City, Mie Prefecture. Early in the morning, divers from the Shima area gather on the beach and at the sound of a conch shell begin an abalone collecting competition. A ceremony is held in which the first pair of bla... |
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Shirushi no sugi |
(Ban Nobutomo) This is the work of Ban Nobutomo, consists of one volume, and was finished in 1835. It contains research into the Inari Shrine of Yamashiro Province (Fushimi Inari). One section was published in 1842 in Ōōhitsugo , second volume. The background for the writing of this w... |
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Shishi-mai |
Lion dance. Also called shishiodori . A dance in which the performer wears decorative headgear made to resemble a lion's head ( shishigashira ). " Shishi " is a term that can also refer to wild animals in general, and there are also traditions of "deer" ( kano... |
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Shishi-odori |
Deer dance. A folk ritual performance in which the dancers wear decorative deer heads with antlers. Thought to be a variation of the one-man shishimai (lion dance, also referred to as shishi-odori but written with different characters). The reading of the character for deer ( shika ,... |
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