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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 Ashes of Tokyo University's Department of Shinto Studies |
Presently, there are no public universities with a department of Shinto Studies or which offer regular courses on the subject. This was not always the case. Prior to the Second World War, Tokyo Imperial University [today, the University of Tokyo] established a program in Shinto Stu... |
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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volume Shaji Torishirabe Ruisan [A Compilation of Documents of the Religious Reform in the Meiji Period] is a valuable historical document providing insight into the religious administration of the early Meiji government during the days of its Kyōbushō , or Ministry of Religi...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 |
How to determine the will of God, or the will of the gods, is a question of central importance in religions around the world. Waking revelations, revelations in dreams, prophecies and oracles ( takusen ), and the spiritual possession of mediums and shamans ( kamigakari ), all refer to ... |
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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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Tohokamiemitame |
This term is usually written using the Chinese characters 吐普加美依身多女(or 米 ). This expression consists of five signs that are inscribed on a deer bone or turtle shell during "turtle shell divination" ( kiboku ), a practice that goes back to ancient times. The phrase is also us... |
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Tokihakashi |
[Tokihakashi no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Tokiokashi no kami( Kojiki ) A kami appearing only in Kojiki , described as coming into being from one of the objects thrown down by Izanagi as he performed purification (misogi). After escaping from the underworld of Yomi, Izanagi arrive... |
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Tokoyo |
A term denoting the "other world" (see View of the other world ) in folk religion and in Shinto. The locus of Tokoyo can vary: in a foreign land, under the sea, in heaven, under the ground, or in a place beyond the ocean. Various kami and spirits of ancestors are believed to live ... |
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Tokoyo Nagatane |
(1832-86) An early Meiji-era scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the Hirata school. Born in 1832, Tokoyo lived in Mibu, Tsuga District, Shimotsuke Province (present-day Mibu-chō, Tochigi Prefecture). He name was first Tokozumi Keikichi, but he later changed it to Tokoyo ... |
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Tokugawa Mitsukuni |
(1628-17) Second-generation domainal lord of Mito Domain in the early Edo period. His childhood name was Chōmaru, then Chiyomatsu, and his styles were Tokuaki, Kanshi, and Shiryū. He used Nisshinsai and other studio names, and his posthumous title was Gikō. He was appointed Vice M... |
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Tokugawa Yoshinao |
(16-5) Lord of Kōfu Domain (in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)and Owari Nagoya Domain (in Aichi Prefecture) in the early Edo period. His style was Shikei, and his posthumous name was Genkei. He was born as the fifth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1600, and spent his childhood in Suruga P... |
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Tokumitsukyō |
A Shinto-derived religious movement founded by Kanada Tokuaki (1863-1919). Kanada was born in Osaka Prefecture on September 20, 1863, as the eldest son of Kanada Tokuhei. He subsequently succeeded to head of the Kanada household of relatives. In 1871 he became an apprentice to Asa... |
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Tokusanokamudakara |
[Tokusa no kamu dakara] Also read jusshu jinpō . According to the "Original Record of the Heavenly Grandchild" ( Tenson hongi ) in Sendai kuji hongi , these are the "ten kinds of heavenly-emblem sacred treasures" ( amatsushirushi mizutakara tokusa ) bestowed ... |
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Tomobe Yasutaka |
(1667-174) A scholar of Suika Shintō of the mid-Edo period. His common name was Buemon, and his epistolary names were Shiansai and Yaegaki no Okina. Born at Shinagawa in Edo on the first day of the twelfth month of 1667, Tomobe began studying Neo-Confucianism under Satō Naokata (1650... |
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