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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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Tensei Shinbikai |
A Shinto-derived new religion strongly influenced by Sekai Kyūseikyō. Its founder Iwanaga Kayoko (1934-) became a member of Sekai Kyūseikyō in 1958. Her husband Hidetaka also joined, and together they alternated leadership of the movement's Ujina branch center in Hiroshima. Du... |
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Tensha Tsuchimikado Shintō Honchō |
A religious movement drawing its inspiration from Tsuchimikado Shintō (Tensha Shintō) which was established in the early modern period by the Tsuchimikado family (descendants of the Heian period Yin-Yang ritualist Abe no Seimei). Dissolved in 1870, Tsuchimikado Shintō was rev... |
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Tenshin Seikyō |
A new religious movement founded by Shimada Seiichi (1896-1985). Seiichi was born the second son of a farming family in Kazo City in Saitama Prefecture. It is said that Shimada's birth had been prophesied a year before by a kami that had periodically possessed his elder brother since ... |
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Tenshindō Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion with strong eclectic tendencies, founded by Tamura Reishō (1890-1968). While working in the office of the Governor-General of Korea, Reishō studied the Daoistic magical arts transmitted in Korea since ancient times. It is said that after returning ... |
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Tenshinkyō Shin'yūden Kyōkai |
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Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō |
A Shinto-based new religion founded by Kitamura Sayo (1900-1967). Kitamura was born into a farming family in Kumage district in Yamaguchi Prefecture, but married into the Kitamura household, where she experienced a very strict mother-in-law. After one of family's outbuildings ... |
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Tenshōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Senba Hideo (1925-) and his wife Senba Kimiko, both of whom were born in Hokkaido. Senba Hideo's family were devotees of Tenrikyō, but when Hideo became ill in March 1953, the couple went to the Terahama branch of Ontakekyō in Hokkaido and beca... |
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Tenshūkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Unagami Haruho (1896-1965). Its origins lie in Unagami's dissatisfaction with Buddhism, whereupon he took up the study of Shinto and established the group Kōtokukai in the Denmachō area of Yotsuya district, Tokyo. Initially Unagami... |
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