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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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Tamayorihime |
[Tamayori hime](Fudoki) Tamayorihime (or –bime) is a common noun meaning a divine bride, in other words, a woman who cohabits with a kami and gives birth to his child. Specifically, the daughter of Kamo Taketsunumi and Kamuikakoyahime, and the mother of Kamo Wakeikazuchi no mikoto... |
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Tanabata |
Held on the seventh day of the seventh month (i.e., July 7). One of the "five seasonal feasts" ( gosekku ) recognized and established by the Tokugawa bakufu . Also widely known as hoshi-matsuri (The Star Festival). This celebration is first mentioned in the 7th century Yōr... |
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Tanaka Yoritsune |
(1836-97) A scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo and early Meiji periods. He was born in 1836 as the son of Tanaka Shirōzaemon, a retainer of Satsuma Domain (in present-day Kagoshima Prefecture). At the age of fifteen he was implicated in a political dispute and was ... |
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Tanaka Yoshitō |
(1872-1946) A Shinto scholar, D.Lit. Born on the twelfth day of the ninth month of 1872, in Yonekawa Village of Kuka District, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Immediately after graduation from the Department of Philosophy at Tokyo Imperial University in 1903, Tanaka became a Lecturer at Ko... |
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Tango |
"Boys' Festival." Held on the fifth day of the fifth month (May 5) as a celebration for male children, tango was one of the "five seasonal feasts" ( gosekku ) recognized and established by the Tokugawa bakufu . Generally, it is also called the Festival of the Iris... |
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Tani Shigetō |
(1663-1718) Shintoist of the Suika Shintō lineage and Confucian scholar of the mid-Edo period. He originated from the Miwa clan, his common name was Tanzaburō, and he used the epistolary name Jinzan. He was born as the third son of Tani Kanbei Shigemoto, priest ( shinshoku ) of the shr... |
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Tanigawa Kotosuga |
(179-76) A scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the mid-Edo period. Tanigawa's style name was Kōsuke, his formal name was Noboru, and he had the common name of Yōjun. He used numerous epistolary names ( gō ) including Tansai and others. He was born in 1709 as the eldest son of a phy... |
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Tanimori Yoshiomi |
(1817-1911) A scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) during the late Edo and Meiji periods. Born in Kyoto in 1817, Tanimori became a disciple of Ban Nobutomo (1775-1848) and studied positivistic historical research (or "evidential learning," kōshōgaku ), concentr... |
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Tanokami |
[Ta no kami] " Kami of the rice paddy," a tutelary of rice production. The general term ta no kami can be found nationwide, but regional variations exist in the specific names used to refer to the kami . Some include nōgami (farming kami ) in the northeast, sakugami ( kami of pr... |
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Taokihooi |
[Taokihooi no kami] (Nihongi) Ancestral kami ( sojin ) of the Inbe clan. A kami related to the manufacture of shrine structures and implements. According to Kogo shūi , Taokihooi was ancestor of the Inbe of Sanuki (present-day Kagawa Prefecture). Together with Hikosashiri no mikot... |
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Tatari |
Originally a condition wherein a spirit caused a calamitous condition, or an evil effect or a supernatural force that worked within that condition to punish human beings for their transgressions, malice, or neglect of religious duties. Later, when goryō shinkō ("belief in m... |
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