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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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Chinowa |
Also called suganuki , a large ring made of cogon grass ( chigaya ) and erected on the pathway leading to a shrine on the days of purification ( harae ) of the last day of the sixth or seventh month (called nagoshi harae or minazuki harae ). Worshipers at the shrine pass through the ring as an ... |
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Chiyo no sumika |
(Oka Kumaomi） A compilation of Oka Kumaomi's theories concerning the soul. Two volumes. The author's preface states that the work was written in 1818, and the editing was finished in 1822. This work develops the theory of the immortality of the soul. After one's death, the source so... |
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Chokusai |
A ritual performed by order of the emperor and for which a special envoy ( chokushi ) is sent to a shrine to read a prayer ( saimon ) before the deity and present heihaku offerings. The term chokusai cannot be found in old records or literature and first appears in the phrase "shrines ... |
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Chokusaisha |
A shrine where an imperial envoy ( chokushi ) comes to perform rituals; officially known as a chokushi sankō no jinja ("shrine attended by imperial envoy"). Shrines designated as chokusai have existed since ancient times, as typified by the Heian-period system of "... |
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