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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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Shrines Confronting Urbanization |
Shinto took its shape in response to the boons and banes of an agricultural society. As expressed in the Spring Festival( kinensai ) and the Eleventh-month Harvest Festival ( Niinamesai ), rites for abundant future harvests and prayers of thanksgiving for present harvest have form... |
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Shrines and Hawaiians of Japanese descent |
The relationship between Hawaii and shrines may not be obvious at first, but considering that Hawaii began to admit Japanese immigrants in 1868, it should not be surprising that shrines exist there even today. Compared to the pre-war era, the number of shrines in countries other tha... |
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Shubatsu |
To undergo purification. Shubatsu is a ceremony conducted immediately prior to rituals in order to purify participants, food offerings, and tamagushi of sins and defilement. Although some shrines still follow ancient practices when conducting the ceremony, the majority follo... |
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Shugendō |
Shugendō is a religion that espouses a variety of salvific activities based on the attainment by its practitioners, called shugen , of supranormal, magico-religious power through ascetic training in the mountains. It gradually took form between the twelfth and fourteenth centu... |
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Shuinchi, Kokuinchi |
In principle, shuinchi refers to land granted to shrines (and temples) by the shogun and sealed with a vermilion seal, while kokuinchi refers to land granted under a black seal by a daimyō (local feudal lord). In both cases, the shrine has full administrative rights over the donated l... |
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Shuku-sai-jitsu |
This term refers to the holidays ( shukujitsu ) and days of observances ( saijitsu ) fixed by the Japanese state. In the prewar period, there were both shukujitsu and saijitsu , but in the postwar period only the term shukujitsu continued to be used. To the three major national holidays... |
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Shurikosei |
An expression in Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) from the divine edict ( shinchoku ) proclaimed by the heavenly kami ( amatsukami ) to the two kami Izanagi and Izanami to create the islands of Japan: "Form and rule this floating, inchoate country." This expression is v... |
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Shushin |
The principal or central kami among all those dedicated at a shrine (see saijin ). Also called shusaijin , the term shushin is used to discriminate the main enshrined kami from other kami that may also be jointly enshrined (see haishi ). A shrine may, however, have more than one shushin ... |
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Shōgatsu |
These are the various events in the first month of the year held to greet the new year. Besides the usual hatsumōde , this extremely varied roster includes imperial rites such as the shihōhai and the saitansai , community rituals, and family rituals like the nenga (New Year's Card... |
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Shōkonsha |
[Shōkon sha] "Spirit-inviting-shrine." Prior to World War II, this term referred to shrines established for the purpose of appeasing the spirits of loyalist soldiers who died in the battles of the Meiji Restoration, and thus served as the earlier incarnation of shrine... |
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