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Sonoda Moriyoshi |
(1785-184) Scholar of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in the late Edo period, born to the Arakida lineage. Son of Sonoda Moritsura (1757-1812), Suppliant Priest ( negi ) at Ise's Inner Shrine (Naikū), Sonoda Moriyoshi was born in 1785 as the younger twin of Moritsune. His childho... |
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Sonraku-saishi |
Village rituals ( sonraku saishi ) are observances performed in spatially limited, fixed settlements ( mura – commonly translated in English as "village"). This represents one attempt to define these rituals based on their shared features, but the concept remains imp... |
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Sonsha |
Village shrines. A category of shrines stipulated under the shrine system established in the Meiji era. The broad categorization was between official shrines ( kansha ) and other shrines ( shosha ), and village shrines fell into the latter category, ranked below gōsha (district sh... |
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Sorei |
Ancestral spirits. The term is used frequently to refer to a soul that no longer possesses individual characteristics. As Yanagita Kunio has shown, for a certain period of time (thirty-three years in many cases) after death a soul receives memorial services and is called a shiryō (s... |
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Soreisha |
[Sorei sha] "Ancestral shrine," a smaller shrine established within the precincts of a local "clan deity" ( ujigami ) or "parish tutelary" ( ubusuna ), and dedicated to the worship of the ancestral spirits of shrine parishioners ( ujiko ). The term ... |
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Soshindō |
A Shinto-derived new religious movement that arose focused on Matsushita Matsuzō (1873-1947), a spirit medium ( reinōsha ) active from the Taisho era (1912-26) to the World War II period. Subject to chronic illness, Matsushita had possessed deep faith from a young age and had activ... |
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Soshindō Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion established by Yoshioka Tajūrō (1905-87), who had worked earlier as a teacher in Izumo Taishakyō. In the early Showa era (ca. late 1920s-) Yoshioka visited and came under the religious tutelage of the Shinto spiritualist Matsushita Matsuzō, known as ... |
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State Shintō |
(kokka Shintō) In the narrow sense, Kokka Shintō refers to Shrine Shintō as supervised until 1945 by the state and as administered separately in law from other forms of Shintō. In the wider sense, it has been conceptualized as the state religion manifest in the merging of the Shintō of ... |
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Statistics for the Distribution of Amulets from the Grand Shrines of Ise |
The annual number and distribution rate of Jingu Taima (Ise amulet) peaked in 1943. Although both figures plummeted immediately after World War II, the number of amulets distributed annually saw a gradual increase after 1947. However, the distribution rate consistently decreas... |
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Subikari Kōha Sekai Shindan |
A new religion from the lineage of Ōmoto, Sekai Kyūseikyō and Mahikari. Founded by the spiritualist manga artist Kuroda Minoru (1928- ), under influence from Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan. Kuroda made his living as an artist of manga (graphic novels) while continuing his studies of ... |
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Sugiura Jūgō |
(1855-1924) Educator and philosopher of the Meiji and Taisho eras. Born in 1855 as the second son of Confucianist Sugiura Jūbun in the Zeze Domain of Ōmi Province (in present-day Shiga Prefecture). His styled was Tendai Dōshi. As a youth, he received training in Chinese classics at t... |
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Suhōtei shinji |
A festival characterized by the offering of large banners that is held August 7–13 Iminomiya Shrine in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The festival supposedly began with the dance warriors performed with swords, pikes, and spears in hand when they celebrated the subjuga... |
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Suijin |
"Water- kami ," a general term for tutelaries of water, found in a variety of forms. Water is of crucial importance in agriculture, and the availability and quality of water can spell life or death to farmers; as a result, tutelaries of water naturally came to be associated ... |
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Suika Shintō |
The form of Shinto advocated by Yamazaki Ansai, a Confucian-Shintoist (see Juka Shintō ) of the early Edo period. Suika Shintō was a form of Confucianist Shintō that attempted to compiled all Shinto theories since medieval times, and until the appearance of National Learning ( koku... |
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Suikabunshū |
This is a compilation of Chinese and Japanese poetry as well as Japanese essays written by Yamazaki Ansai, the founder of Suika Shintō. The work was compiled by Atobe Yoshiakira and Tomobe Yasutaka, both of whom belonged to the same lineage as Yamazaki. The work consists of three volu... |
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Sukui no Hikari Kyōdan |
A new religion deriving from Sekai Kyūseikyō, and one of several groups that in quick succession became independent in opposition to that religion's policy of centralization ( ichigenka ) implemented in the mid-1960s. Its direct parent body was Shinsei Kyōkai, which had been one o... |
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Sukunahikona |
[Sukunahikona no kami] (Kojiki) A kami who assisted Ōnamuchi in the "forming of the land." According to Kojiki , Sukunahikona was a tiny kami who fell from between the fingers of its parent ( oyakami ) Kamimusuhi (according to Nihongi , Takamimusuhi). In Kojiki , Sukunahi... |
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Sumegami |
"Noble kami ." Since the prefix sume means "revered," the term sumegami can be considered a general title of respect for kami . At the same time, since the same character sume 皇 is also used in terms such as "emperor" ( tennō ), the title tends to be used p... |
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Sumerakyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion considered in the Shirakawa Shintō lineage. It began when Onikura Taruhiko, who had received direct transmission from the Shirakawa family of Shinto ritualists (called the Shirakawa Hakuō), experienced possession ( kamigakari ) by a deity around 1... |
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Sumiyoshi Shinkō |
The faith related to the shrine Sumiyoshi Jinja, which includes guardianship over safe sea travel, waka poetry, agriculture, and fishing. The Nihonshoki records that "Sokodsutsunoo no mikoto, Nakadsutsunoo no mikoto, and Uwadsutsunoo no mikoto are Sumiyoshi no ōkami&qu... |
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