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Bukka Shintō |
A general term referring to the various forms of Shintō developed by Buddhist thinkers. Also known as Bukke Shintō, the term refers generally to Shintō doctrines combining Buddhist and Shintō elements (known as Shinbutsu shūgō) that saw maximum diffusion during the medieval peri... |
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Bunrei |
Dividing the spirit. The term refers to entreating ( kanjō ) a deity enshrined in one location to impart the divine presence to another location. The deity of such a branch shrine ( bunshi , bunsha , niimiya , imamiya ) is a divided spirit of the enshrined deity of the main shrine. For exam... |
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Bunshi |
A branch shrine. From the main shrine, the resident deity ( saijin ) may be entreated ( kanjō ) to impart ( bunrei ) the divine presence to another location as well, through the construction and dedication of a new small shrine ( hokora ) or branch shrine. Such is also called a bunsha , niim... |
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Busha matsuri |
A sacred archery ritual performed mainly around the New Year. It can be written with the characters 歩射 or 奉射, and has many variant pronunciations including bisha and hōsha . Performed widely at shrines throughout the country. In contrast to kisha (equestrian archery), busha entail... |
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Busha sai |
Sacred Archery Festival or Foot Archery Festival (depending on the Chinese characters used to write the name). An archery rite held on March 17 at the Hotaka Shrine ( Hotaka jinja ) in Hotaka Town, Azumi County, Nagano Prefecture. Ritual objects featured in the festival include thre... |
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Business Shrines |
Many Japanese corporations and businesses have shrines on their property or within their buildings. Little attention was paid to these facilities until the Jinja Shinpōsha (the publishing house for the Association of Shinto Shrines) published a survey in the book Kigyō no jinja [... |
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Byakkō Shinkōkai |
A new religion founded by Goi Masahisa (1916-1980) from the Ōmoto and Seichō no Ie lineages, with an emphasis on two characteristic Ōmoto doctrines, the notion that all religions emanate from the same root ( bankyō dōkon ), and the principle of world peace. Following World War II, Goi... |
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Bō-chigiri |
Distributing stakes. A ta-asobi (rice-field pantomime) rite held on February 13, at the Ugan Shrine in Ikeda Town, Imadate County, Fukui Prefecture. Participants wearing masks representing old men and women, stick a tree into a round-shaped rice cake ( kagami mochi ) of about sixt... |
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Chan-chan matsuri |
Held on April 1, this is the annual festival ( reitaisai ) of the Ōyamato Shrine in Tenri City, Nara Prefecture. On the day before the festival, participants in the sacred procession ( togyo ) present offerings of taihei (large nusa , ritual purification wands) at the shrine. In a cerem... |
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Chichibu yomatsuri |
Chichibu yomatsuri is the popular name for the annual festival ( reitaisai ) of Chichibu Jinja (Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture), celebrated on December 2 and 3. The festival is know for its parade of splendidly decorated floats ( yatai or dashi ), some with open stages on which Kab... |
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Chikakusan Minshukyō Kyōdan |
A religious group based on the mountain-worship cult of Kiso Ontake (Mount Ontake in the Kiso region). It began in the mid-Meiji era when Nehashi Umetarō (1868-1922) founded the Chikaku Kōsha (Chikaku Religious Association). When Nehashi died in 1922, his third son Shigefumi, who ... |
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Chimaki matsuri |
A festival held on May 31 at Katatagae Shrine in Sakai City, Ōsaka Prefecture. Given the shrine's strong relationship with the belief in yin-yang directional taboos ( katatagae ), many people visit it when building or moving into a new house in order to receive katatagae talismans ( s... |
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Chimaki shinji |
A festival held at Hikawa Shrine in Ōmiya City, Saitama Prefecture, on June 5. The ritual consists of offering rice cakes ( chimaki ) during the Tango no sekku (Boys' Festival). Miscanthus ( kaya ) leaves collected from a nearby marsh are cut into pieces of equal length, then used to wra... |
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Chimatanokami |
[Chimata no kami] (Kojiki) The tutelary kami of "crossroads" or "forking paths." According to Kojiki , this kami was produced when Izanagi threw down his formal trousers ( mihakama ) in order to perform ablutions at the Straits of Tachibana after returning fr... |
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Chinjugami |
A kami acting as a tutelary of a circumscribed geographical region or area of land. Believed to have originated with the qié-lán-shen (Jp. garanjin ), tutelary deities of temple compounds in China, the growth of kami -buddha syncretism ( shinbutsu shūgō ) led to the dedication ( kanj... |
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Chinka sai |
"Festival for the Pacification of Fire." A monoimi (purificatory abstinence) ritual held on the evening of July 19 at Mononobe Jinja Shrine in Ōda City, Shimane Prefecture. In the past, this ritual was observed in the evening of all the Days of the Horse in the sixth month o... |
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Chinka-sai (hana shizume matsuri) |
"Festival for appeasing the spirits of the blossoms". Also called "hana shizume matsuri." One of the rites specified in Jingiryō . In ancient times, the Department of Divinities would make offerings to the shrine attendants hafuribe of the Ōmiwa and Sai Shri... |
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Chinka-sai (hi/ho shizume no matsuri) |
"Festival for appeasing the fire deity" Also called "hi/ho shizume no matsuri ." Recorded in the Jingiryō as one of the so-called rituals of the Ritsuryō Shinto system. Ryō no gige mentions the festival as a fire-prevention rite, although it may have been inte... |
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Chinkon kishin |
The terms chinkon and kishin are found in the classics but use of the four-character phrase became common only after a Shintō-derived new religion, Ōmoto, began to use it. Here, chinkon refers to the procedures for healing and directing spirits; by extension, it also refers to joini... |
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Chinkon-sai |
"Festival for the pacification of the spirit". A ritual of the ancient and medieval eras. Also called " mitama furi ," " mitama shizume ," " ō-mitama furi ," " tama shizume no matsuri ." According to the Commentary on the Legal C... |
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