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Tsutsukohiki matsuri |
" Tsutsuko tug of war festival." A festival that functions as a prayer for a bountiful harvest held on the 25th day of the first lulnar month at Itsukushima Shrine in Hobara Township, Date District, Fukushima Prefecture. Following a ceremony, all the men who are of an inaus... |
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Tōka Ebisu |
"Tenth Day Festival of Ebisu." Held on January 10, this is the first of several ritual celebrations of the year held to honor the god Ebisu, and is also therefore referred to as hatsu Ebisu ("the First Ebisu"). Well-known local celebrations are those at the Ebis... |
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Tōka sai |
"Peach blossom festival." A festival held April 1–3 at Masumida Shrine in Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture. The event celebrates the enshrinement of Amenoho no Akari no mikoto, the deity to whom the shrine is dedicated (see saijin ), which took place on the third day of t... |
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Tōka shinji |
"Dance music rite." A rite held January 4 at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Also called the "good-fortune mochi rite" ( fukumochi shinji ). Two people—the "bag holder" ( fukuro-mochi ) who carries a bag filled wi... |
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Tōnin gyōji |
"Ritual caretaker observance." A ritual held July 7 at Tōko Yasaka Shrine (also known as Gozu Tennō Shrine) in Tennō Township, Minimi-Akita District, Akita Prefecture. Tōko Yasaka is the tutelary shrine of both Tennō Town and Funakoshi Town in Oga City, Akita District; ... |
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Tōrō |
A fixed lantern or lamp found either within a shrine's precincts ( keidaichi ) or one of the shrine structures, and used as a place to offer votive lights to the shrine. Lamps and lanterns were originally a fixture of Buddhist temples before being adopted at Shinto shrines as well. ... |
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Tōrō shinji |
"Lantern rite." A festival held July 25 at Iyahiko Shrine in Yahiko Village, Nishi-Kanbara District, Niigata Prefecture. A"flower lantern" ( hana tōrō ) is a platform approximately 2.5 meters wide, 120 centimeters long, and 80 centimeters high, with a smal... |
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Tōya |
At times of shrine festivals or kō events, this term refers to the people who take care of those rituals and events, or it refers to their families. Sometimes just " tō " is used as designation, and in many cases it is written 当屋 (not 頭屋). Tō refers to the supervisor or caretaker ... |
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U matsuri |
"Cormorant festival." A festival held December 16 to present cormorants to the kami of Keta Shrine in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Cormorants are captured alive at a place called Ugai (Cormorant Cliff) at Unoura (Cormorant Bay) Shoreline in Nanao City. A catechism ... |
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U no matsuri |
"Rabbit festival." A 13-day-long rite beginning the first day of the rabbit in March and ending with the next that is held at Aso Shrine in Ichinomiya Township, Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture. Late on the eve of the first day of the rabbit, the spirit of the kami is transf... |
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Ubusunagami |
The tutelary kami of one's birthplace. Also known as ubusuna. A variety of orthographical representations for the term ubusuna are found historically, including 本居, 生土, 参土, 宇夫須那, and 産須那. In any case, the element ubu means birth, though opinion is divided regarding the significan... |
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Ubusunashakodenshō |
(Mutobe Yoshika) Notes on Old Legends of the Ubusuna Shrines . Primary work by the late early modern ( bakumatsu ) Hirata School kokugaku (National Learning) scholar, Mutobe Yoshika. Includes a colophon dated the eighth lunar month of 1857. Ubusuna shrines in each region are believ... |
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Udanosumisaka |
[Uda no sumisaka no kami](Kojiki)(Nihongi) A kami offered worship in the era of legendary Emperor Sujin. The name Uda no Sumisaka referred to the place-name Sumisaka in Uda District of Yamato Province. As recounted by Nihongi and Kojiki , a great epidemic occurred in the ninth year o... |
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Uden Shintō |
Shinto doctrines enunciated by Kamo no Norikiyo (a.k.a. Umetsuji no Norikiyo, 1798-1862). Norikiyo hailed from a family of Shinto priests at the shrine of Kamo wake Ikazuchi Jinja, and constructed his teachings on the basis of the Shinto transmissions that had emerged there. In th... |
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Ueda Kazutoshi |
(1867-1937) Scholar of Japanese language of the Meiji and Showa eras. Born the first month of 1867 in the Edo residence of the lord of Nagoya Domain. Graduated in 1888 from Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) Department of Literature in Japanese literature, and entere... |
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Uematsu Arinobu |
(1758-1813) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the late Edo period. Common name Chūhei. Uematsu was born 1758 in Nagoya in the Owari Domain (in present-day Aichi Prefecture). His father was a rōnin (masterless samurai), a former retainer of the Owari Domain who operated a w... |
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Ugajin |
Other names: Uka no kami An obscure kami worshiped as a deity of fortune from the early medieval period on. Fused with the Buddhist deity Benzaiten, the kami became known as Uga Benten, and was also called by the titles Uga Shinnō ("divine-king Uga") and Uga Shinshō ("... |
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Ugayafukiaezu |
[Ugayafukiaezu no mikoto] (Kojiki) Other names: Hikonagisatake ugayafukiaezu no mikoto( Kojiki ) The son of Hohodemi (Ninigi's son) and Toyotamabime (Watatsumi's daughter); the father of Emperor Jinmu. Ugayafukiaezu's name ("cormorant-rush-thatching-unfinished&... |
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Uijini, Suijini |
[Suijini no kami](Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other name: Uijine no mikoto, Suijine no mikoto( Nihongi ) According to Kojiki , a pair of deities forming the third of the first seven generations of kami ; (the fourth generation according to the main text of Nihongi ). The most widely accepted in... |
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Uiyamabumi |
(Motoori Norinaga) First Steps into the Mountains . Written by Motoori Norinaga . One fascicle. Completed 1798, and published in 1799. Norinaga's academic treatise. Norinaga responded to the wishes of his disciples with this work after completing Kojikiden in the fifth month of 1... |
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