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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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Tenson kōrin |
Tenson kōrin refers to the mythic episode in which Amaterasu's grandchild, Ninigi, descended from Takama no hara to Takachiho Peak in Hyūga. The story is primarily recorded in Kiki ( Kojiki and Nihon shoki ), Fudoki , and Sendai kuji hongi , among other texts, although variants are nu... |
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Teppō matsuri |
"Gun festival." An annual festival ( reisai ) held on April 17 at Hozumi Shrine in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The shrine is also called Ryūsō-sama (the shrine sits at the foot of Mt. Ryūsō; see yama no kami ), a divinity that has attracted worship from hunters as the ... |
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Tezutsu shinji |
"'Pistol' festival." A rite conducted during the Gion Festival ( Gion matsuri ) held July 13–15 at Yoshida Shrine in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture. The event is also known as the Yoshida Tennō Festival and has been well known along Japan's famed Tōkaidō ("easter... |
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The Complexity of the Nihon Shoki |
It is a well-known fact that the scroll of the Nihon Shoki referred to as the "Age of the Kami" or "Divine Age" ( kamiyo ) is divided into two parts, the first comprising the "primary account" and the second containing "alternative accounts.&qu... |
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The Founder who Swallowed the Sun |
Ancient religions often took heavenly bodies as objects of worship, but there are strikingly many that worship the sun in particular. Shinto also incorporates elements of sun-worship, such as the kami Amaterasu, the sun kami. There are a number of shrines that worship Amaterasu as ... |
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The Meiji Jingikan |
The early Meiji office for the administration of ritual and shrine affairs, established in the seventh month of 1869, and located above the Council of State (Dajōkan) in the institutional hierarchy. In the Ōnin wars of the fifteenth century, the ancient state's Jingikan building w... |
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The Ritual Etiquette of Shinto Priests |
The protocol of a Shinto priest's actions during Shrine rites and rituals is prescribed in great detail. With regard to posture alone, for example, the rules of the Association of Shinto Shrines (jinja honchō) stipulates five different poses: seiza , chokuritsu , kikyo , sonky... |
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The Shinto Cultivation Program as seen in Shaji Torishirabe Ruisan |
The volume Shaji Torishirabe Ruisan [A Compilation of Documents of the Religious Reform in the Meiji Period] is a valuable historical document providing insight into the religious administration of the early Meiji government during the days of its Kyōbushō , or Ministry of Religi... |
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The Unity of Shintō, Confucianism and Bhuddism |
The notion of shinjubutsu itchi held that Shinto, Confucianism and Buddhism are ultimately identical. Ideas of the one-ness of Shinto, Confucianism and Buddhism saw their greatest expansion during the medieval period and into the early modern period, and it is thought that there ... |
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The Will of the Kami and the Role of the Sa'niwa |
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Theological Research |
The theological approach to Shintō research is claimed by some to be essentially Shintō apologetics, or studies in defense of Shintō beliefs. However, Shintō theology in fact has two aspects. On the one hand it is the public justification of one's private faith in Shintō, and on the o... |
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Toga |
An error. A synonym of tsumi . Toga may be written in Chinese characters as 咎、科、過 and so on. The term appears in the liturgical address ( norito ) for Ōtonohogai (Palace Safety Liturgy) in Engishiki : "If there are errors and offences ( toga ayamachi ), let us correct them." Ni... |
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