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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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Uminokami |
[Umi no kami] " Kami of the sea," a tutelary of the ocean and ocean travel. Believed to live in the sea or the "other world" at the bottom of the sea, the umi no kami is a nature deity believed to have dominion over ocean winds and waves, the tides, and rains. It was anci... |
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Umisachi |
[Umisachi hiko] (Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Hoderi no mikoto ( Kojiki ), Hoakari no mikoto, Hosusori no mikoto, Ho no suseri no mikoto, Ho no susor no mikoto, Hosuseri no mikoto, Ho no susumi no mikoto ( Nihongi ). An offspring of Ninigi and Konohana Sakuyahime. Accounts differ in ... |
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Umugaihime, Kisagaihime |
[Umugai hime][Kisagai hime](Kojiki) According to the Kojiki account, the two deities dispatched by Kamimusuhi to resurrect Ōnamuchi after his eighty brothers had killed him with a heated rock. Kisagaihime gathered shavings from seashell and Umugaihime mixed them with the juic... |
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Unden Shintō |
A branch of Shinto founded by the Edo-period Shingon monk Jiun Onkō (1718-1804). As Jiun lived on Mt. Katsuragi, it is also called Katsuragi Shintō. Jiun's learning extended not only to esoteric Buddhism, siddham (Sanskrit philology), and Zen, but also to Confucianism and Shinto. ... |
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Urabe Kanekata |
(n.d.) Scholar of the mid-Kamakura era. Also known as Kaiken. Son of Kanafumi, of the Hirano branch of the Urabe clan, who held the office of jingi taifu in the Department of Divinities (Jingikan). Originally, the Urabe clan had charge of the practice of plastromancy, ( kiboku ), a for... |
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Urata Nagatami |
(184-93) Shinto scholar of the Meiji era. Born on the first day of the third month of 1840 in the town of Uji in Watarai District of the province of Ise. His style name was Kokufu and he used the epistolary name Kaitei. In 1857, Urata inherited his family's hereditary positions of Naikū go... |
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Urate shinji |
" Urate rite." A rite resembling sumō wrestling held September 24 at Tamanoya Shrine in Bōfu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Urate were the equivalent of sekiwake (the third highest rank) in today's sumō. Two referees, naked except for loincloths, come out and present a rou... |
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Ushi matsuri |
"Cow festival." A rite held the first day of the cow in January at the shrine Dazaifu Tenmangū in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. The origins of this rite are connected to an ancient story surrounding the Heian period-courtier Sugawara no Michizane (see Tenjin Shinkō )... |
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Ushihaku |
Ruling a territory as lord. Motoori Norinaga interpreted it as "possessing a certain place as one's own." In the section in Kojiki concerning the "transfer of the land" ( kuniyuzuri ), it says: "The Central Land of the Reed Plains (Ashihara no nakatsukun... |
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Usokae shinji |
"Bullfinch-exchange rite." A rite held the night of January 7 at the shrine Dazaifu Tenmangū in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Wooden bullfinch ( uso ) figurines function as amulets for protection against fire. People bring in bullfinches covered with grime accumu... |
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Utaki |
"Honored mountain." A sacred space in Okinawan villages where a deity similar to a village tutelary (see chinjugami ) on the mainland is enshrined or to which it descends, and where people interact with that deity through the media rites and festivals. The names for these ... |
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Utsushiyo |
Utsushiyo refers to this actual world, according to the Shinto worldview ( sekaikan ). It is the "unconcealed" or "apparent" realm in contrast to the "concealed" realm ( kakuriyo ). Nakatomi no yorigito (in Engishiki ) speaks of "adding the w... |
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Utsushiyo |
Also written as 顕世. Neither reading is found as such in the classical texts such as Nihongi and the Kojiki , but utsushiyo (顕世, that is, 現世) appears to have been used in the Nihongi as the world where "open matters" ( arawanigoto 顕事) are carried out, as opposed to the "con... |
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