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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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Shishigari |
Shishigari is the name given to the planting, fishing, and hunting festival held March 12 at Shikanoumi Shrine in Shikashima, Higashi Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. After a ceremony, rites are held in a purified ritual area ( yuniwa , see saijō ) on the shrine grounds ( keida... |
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Shishino Nakaba |
(1844-84) Founder of Fusōkyō, one of the thirteen Meiji-era groups of so-called "sectarian Shinto" (Kyōha Shintō). Born on the ninth day of the ninth month (lunar) of 1844 in the town of Kumanojō (located in the Satsuma domain's Satsuma District, present-day city of Sen... |
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Shitateruhime |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Takahime no mikoto ( Kojiki ), Takahime, Wakakunitama ( Nihongi ) The daughter of the land deities ( kunitsukami ) Ōkuninushi and Takiribime, and who became the wife of Amewakahiko when he descended from heaven to negotiate for the "transfer of ... |
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Shiwahiko Shrine, Shiogama Shrine Priest Training Institute |
(Shiogama Jinja shinshoku yōseijo) A training institute for shrine priests (see also Shrine Priest Training Institutes) approved by the Association of Shintō Shrines (Jinja Honchō) and run by the shrines Shiwahiko Jinja and Shiogama Jinja. These two shrines were originally sep... |
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Shizensha |
A religious movement from the lineage of Hito no Michi Kyōdan (see PL Kyōdan) and founded by Hashimoto Satomi (1899-1984). Born in Kagoshima (Kyushu), Hashimoto became a disciple of Miki Tokuharu in 1924. Miki, in turn, had been a disciple of Kanada Tokumitsu. Miki established the J... |
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Shizuri |
[Shizuri no kami takehazuchi no mikoto](Nihongi) Other names: Shidori no kami takehazuchi no mikoto ( Nihongi ) According to Nihongi , the kami who completed the process of pacifying the "central land of reed plains" by subduing the final rebellious kami , the "sta... |
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Shokishūge |
(Kawamura Hidene) This work is a commentary on Nihon shoki [see Kojiki and Nihon shoki (Nihongi) ] in thirty volumes, compiled by Kawamura Hidene, an official of the Owari domain and also a student of kokugaku , and his son, Masune. It is written in classical Chinese with interlinear r... |
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Shosha negi kannushi hatto |
An ordinance aimed at all shrines and shrine affiliated priests, pronounced as part of the policies of the Tokugawa shogunate to control religion. It outlines the fundamental principles of the shogunate regarding shrines and Shinto priests. It was promulgated along with the temp... |
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Shrine Parishioner Registration (ujiko shirabe) |
A set of regulations for the registration of parishioners at large and small shrines promulgated by the Council of State (Dajōkan) that was in operation for two years from the fourth day of the seventh month of 1871 until May 29, 1873. The regulations for shrine parishioner registrat... |
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Shrine priest training institutes |
For a priest to receive an appointment to a shrine attached to the Jinja Honchō (Association of Shintō Shrines), he or she has to acquire qualifications as set out by the Association. In prewar times, the would-be priest had to meet stipulations as laid down in imperial edicts. Shrine ... |
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