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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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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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Tendōsha matsuri |
"Festival of the Tendō shrine." A rite held on the first day of the horse in the sixth lunar month at Wadatsumi Shrine in Mine Township, Kamiagata District, Nagasaki Prefecture. Three young men are selected as the overseers of the year's ritual. They lead the young village... |
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Tengenkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Naniwa Hisakazu (1902-84). Hisakazu was born as the second son of Ishii Hanjirō and his wife Miwa in the Kashima district of Okayama Prefecture, but at the age of nine he took on the surname of his mother's family. After graduating from hig... |
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Tenjin Shinkō |
The worship of Sugawara Michizane (845-903) as Tenma Tenjin . The use of the term " tenjin " however, predates the ninth century. In ancient China the expression "heavenly deities and earthly deities" ( Tenjin chigi " 天神地祇) existed and subsequently in Ja... |
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Tenjinchigi |
tenjin chigi A collective term for the kami of heaven ( tenjin ) and kami of earth ( chigi ). The expression was strongly influenced by Chinese thought; in China, "heavenly deities" referred to the "Emperor Above in High Heaven" (Haotian Shangdi); the sun, moon... |
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Tenjō mukyū |
This phrase means "everlasting like heaven and earth." It comes from part one, section one of the "Descent of the Heavenly Grandchild" ( tenson kōrin ) chapter in Nihongi . There, Amaterasu gives the following command to her grandchild, Ninigi. "This la... |
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Tenjōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Ishiguro Jō (1908- ), known within the movement as Mahashira (True Pillar). Ishiguro was born in Sayō-chō in Hyogo Prefecture, the second son of Ishiguro Yasujirō and Ishiguro Suwa. It is said that at the age of 17 he was so stricken with pulmon... |
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Tenjōkyō Hon'in |
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Tenkai |
(1536?-1643) A Tendai Buddhist Monk of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods, known as the founder of Sannō Ichijitsu Shintō. Tenkai came from Takada, Aizu (in present-day Fukushima Prefecture); several theories concerning his date of birth exist. His epistolary name was fi... |
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Tenkōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Fujita Shinshō (?- 1966). Fujita was born into a farming family in Uma district in Ehime Prefecture, and at the age of nineteen received a revelation from a deity he called Tenchikane no kami ("heaven-earth gold deity," simultane... |
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Tennō matsuri |
"Heavenly king festival." A festival held on the fourth Saturday and Sunday of July at Tsushima Shrine in Tsushima City, Aichi Prefecture. Five "festival cart" boats ( danjiribune , see dashi ) are floated across on a vast pond that was once Tennō River in a cere... |
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Tennōsei, Tennōseido |
The origins of the tennō (Heavenly Sovereign or emperor) and the various systems associated therewith are largely unclear. However, there are ancient beliefs set out in Kikishinwa (the mythology expressed in the Kojiki and Nihongi ) that the descendants of Amaterasu hereditaril... |
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Tenrikyō |
Together with being one of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto, Tenrikyō was Japan's largest new religion from Meiji era until Japan's defeat in World War II (1945). In the tenth lunar month of 1863 Nakayama Miki (1798-1887) had a sudden experience of spirit possession ( kam... |
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