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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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Tateyama Shinkō |
Beliefs and practices surrounding Tateyama, the composite name given to a series of peaks found in Toyama Prefecture, the highest of which is Ōnanjiyama (3015 m.). Along with Hakusan it was an important Shugendō site and sacred mountain in the central western coastal region. The ma... |
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Tauchimai shinji |
"Plowing dance rite." A rite held February 17 at Samukawa Shrine in Samukawa Township, Kōza District, Kanagawa Prefecture, also known as fukutanemaki ("sowing the seeds of fortune"). At the hall of worship ( haiden ), a priest ( shinshoku ) wearing the mask o... |
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Teinaisha |
[Teinai sha] A small shrine located within a private residential compound. Also sometimes called a teinai shinshi. Some such shrines originated from the belief that a local kami already dwelled in the area before the building of the home, while others were especially dedicated to t... |
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Temizuya |
[Temizu ya] A purification font where shrine visitors rinse their hands and mouth in symbolic purification. Sometimes read chōzuya . Usually located near the entrance of shrines, most of these facilities are take the form of a simple roof supported by pillars over a font of running w... |
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Ten'onkyō |
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Tenchijingi shin'chin'yōki |
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Tenchikyō |
The founder of this group, Uozumi Masanobu (1852-1928), was born into the Maruo family, a farming family in Hyogo Prefecture. He became a household servant in Kobe, but he became seriously ill, and was healed by Shirakami Shin'ichirō (the first-generation person of that name), who ... |
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Tenchō setsu |
"Celebration of the longevity of heaven". The old term designating the emperor's birthday, deriving from a similar observance in Tang China. It was a religious holiday from the early Meiji period to just after World War II. The ceremony performed on this day at the Three S... |
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Tendō shinkō |
Religious thought and practice focused on the deity Hinokami (see Amaterasu) and Hinokami's child, Tendō Hōshi, transmitted within the folk traditions of the Tsushima Islands (a five-island archipelago) in a form that also subsumed belief in agricultural and ancestral spirits ... |
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