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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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Uji no kami |
The head of a clan ( uji ); also called uji no sō and uji no osa , or in ancient times, kono kami . The first document mentioning uji no kami is Nihon shoki , in an entry from the second month of 664 (the third year of Emperor Tenji's reign), which records the gift of large swords to the uji no kami ... |
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Ujigami |
"Clan kami ," in ancient Japanese society, an ancestral kami or other tutelary worshiped by individuals sharing the same clan ( uji ) name. As a result of historical changes in the composition of groups worshiping such kami , however, ujigami today are most frequently ide... |
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Ujiko |
Generally, a group from the land surrounding the areas dedicated to the belief in and worship of one shrine; or, the constituents of that group. Because that shrine's kami is called the ujigami , the corresponding term ujiko is used. There is another term for ujiko , sūkeisha , but ofte... |
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Ukanomitama |
[Uka no mitama no kami](Kojiki) Other names: Uka no mitama no mikoto( Nihongi ) A kami of foodstuffs, thought to refer specifically to the spirit of rice. Kojiki describes the kami as the offspring of Susanoo, while Nihongi states that it was the offspring of the two kami Izanagi and Iz... |
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Ukehi |
Trial by pledge. Generally indicates the act of divination, determining the divine will regarding the positive or negative, auspicious or inauspicious nature, or the success or failure of an act. Ukehi points to uttering certain magical words to achieve a specific outcome, then d... |
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Ukemochi |
[Ukemochi no kami] (Nihongi) A deity appearing in an "alternate writing" quoted within Nihongi . The name uke is synonymous with uka , meaning "food," with the result that ukemochi no kami means a tutelary of foodstuffs, although some theories suggest that th... |
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Umashiashikabihikoji |
[Umashi ashikabi hikoji no kami](Kojiki) Oher names: Umashi ashikabi hikoji no mikoto( Nihongi ) A kami that appeared in the process of formation of heaven and earth. Acording to Kojiki and an "alternate writing" quoted in the Nihongi , when the land was first formed, it w... |
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