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Tajikarao |
[Ame no tajikarao no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Tajikarao no kami( Nihongi ) A kami whose name means "heaven-hand-power." In the mythic episode of the "rock cave of heaven," the kami Omoikane proposed a plan to lure Amaterasu from the rock cave. According to t... |
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Takama no hara |
Also pronounced as Takamagahara. It refers to the vast realm in the high heaven. It is the residence of kami presided over by Amaterasu. It constitutes one plain of a tripartite vertical "view of the cosmos" ( sekaikan ) in Shinto. Takama no hara is the upper world ( uwatsuku... |
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Takamimusuhi |
[Takamimusuhi no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Takamimusuhi no mikoto( Nihongi ),Takagi no kami ( Kojiki ) A central kami included in Kojiki 's "three kami of creation" ( zōka sanshin ), and one of the five "separate heavenly kami " ( kotoamatsukami ). A solitary ... |
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Takatsuki |
Also called koshidaka . A single-legged standing tray for presenting offerings ( shinsen ) that is thought to be identical to an item called takatsuki in the Engishiki 's section on the Daijōsai (Great Festival of Enthronement). Originally, takatsuki were used as stands to hol... |
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Takehiratori |
[Takehiratori no mikoto] (Kojiki) Other names: Takehinatori no mikoto, Takehinateru ( Nihongi ), Ame no hinatori ( Nihongi ) The child of Amenohohi, second of five male kami that came into being as products of the "trial by pledge" ( ukei ) undertaken by Amaterasu and Susa... |
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Takemikazuchi |
[Takemikazuchi no kami] (Kojiki) A kami produced from the blood adhering to the sword when Izanagi killed the fire kami Kagutsuchi. Together with Amanotorifune ( Kojiki ) or Futsunushi no kami ( Nihongi ), Takemikazuchi descended to the land of Izumo and entreated Ōkuninushi to tra... |
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Takenouchi Shikibu |
(1712-67) Proponent of Suika Shintō in the mid-Edo period. His formal name was Takamochi, and he used the epistolary names Shūan and Seian. He was born in Niigata, Kanbara District of Echigo Province (present-day Niigata Prefecture) in 1712, in a hereditary physician's household... |
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Takeshiuchi no Sukune |
(n.d.) Also written with the Chinese characters 建内宿禰, and sometimes read Takenouchi no Sukune. A legendary personality called one of the three meritorious subjects at the time of the Punitive Campaign against the Three Korean Kingdoms, and regarded as the ancestor of twenty-eigh... |
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Tama |
A general term for spirit or soul in ancient times. In addition to human spirit, it also refers to spirit or spiritual force in nature. A human soul is considered a spiritual entity that comes from outside and dwells in the body, endowing the individual with energy and personality. The ... |
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Tamagaki |
A fence enclosing a shrine, sacred area, or the imperial palace. It is believed that the ancient form of such a fence was a brushwood barrier using trees, but historically such fences have also utilized stone, wood, and in recent years, even concrete. Fences may be given a variety of de... |
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Tamagushi |
An object presented to the kami by a priest or worshiper, composed of a sprig of evergreen sakaki to which paper streamers ( shide ), or paper mulberry fibers ( yū ) have been attached. Numerous theories have been advanced to explain the origin of the tamagushi ; and the most common holds ... |
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Tamakae shinji |
"Ball exchange rite." This rite is held the evening of January 15 at Kōra Shrine in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. The rite entails holding a ceremony in which a golden and a silver ball along with food offerings ( shinsen ) are presented before the altar. At 11 p.m. a perso... |
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Tamakatsuma |
(Motoori Norinaga) A collection of essays by Motoori Norinaga in fourteen volumes with a table of contents, fifteen sections total. This essays were started in 1792 and were published in five stages, with three volumes each starting from 1795 until several years after Norinaga's d... |
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Tamaki Masahide |
(167-1736) A Shintoist of the mid-Edo period, born on the seventh day of the twelfth month of 1670. A priest ( shinkan ) at the shrine Ume no Miya Taisha in Kyoto, Tamaki had the common names Kōsuke and Hyōgo, and his epistolary names included Isai and others. His posthumous "divin... |
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Tamamatsu Misao |
(181-72) A scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) from the end of the Edo into the early Meiji periods. Born in 1810 as the second son of Yamamoto Kimihiro, a State Consultant ( sangi ) and Chamberlain ( jijū ). At the age of eight, Tamamatsu entered Buddhism at the Muryōin temple of the ... |
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Tamamitsu Jinja |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by the spirit medium Motoyama Kinue (1909-74). In 1932 Kinue attempted suicide out of depression, flinging herself off a precipice on the island of Shōdoshima. A sudden gust of wind, however, blew her back onto the cliff, and just then she heard ... |
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Tamanomihashira |
(Hirata Atsutane) A work in two volumes written by Hirata Atsutane, first drafted in 1812. It was published the following year. This work defined the direction that Atsutane's thinking on Shinto would take, and at the time it also made quite a stir among the circles of kokugaku schola... |
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Tamasaki jūnisha matsuri |
"Tamasaki twelve-shrine festival." A "combined shrine" ( sōsha ) festival held September 10–13 at Tamasaki Shrine in Ichinomiya Township, Chōsei District, Chiba Prefecture. The festival is also known as "the naked festival of the Ichinomiya" ... |
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Tamashizume, Tamafuri |
Tamashizume , or mitamashizume , means to pacify the spirit and settle it in the center of the body. Tamafuri , or mitamafuri , means to reinvigorate the withered soul by shaking a ritual object or, alternatively, the human body itself. It can also express the idea of "beckoning a ... |
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Tamayoribime |
[Tamayoribime no mikoto] (Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Tamayorihime no mikoto( Nihongi ) The daughter of Watatsumi and younger sister of Toyotamabime. Tamayoribime raised her elder sister's child, the kami Ugayafukiaezu, and later became his consort, giving birth to four so... |
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