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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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Uwazutsunoo, Nakazutsunoo, Sokozutsunoo |
[Uwazutsu no o no mikoto][Nakazutsu no o no mikoto] [Sokozutsu no o no mikoto](Kojiki)(Nihongi) Three kami produced during Izanagi's purification (see misogi, harae). When Izanagi returned from the land of Yomi, he bathed at Awakihara of Tsukushi in order to purge the pollution o... |
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Uzue shinji |
"Rabbit-staff rite." A rite held on January 15 at Itakiso Shrine in Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture. Thirteen sticks of cut bamboo are stuck into cooked rice gruel. The richness or meagerness of the year's crops is divined by how much gruel has gotten into the bamboo s... |
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View of the other world (takaikan) |
This term refers, in general, to the notion of a space that is different from this real world. It is difficult to clearly distinguish a Shinto view of the Other World from that held by Japanese religions at large. The world of everyday life is called "present world," "v... |
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Wakabayashi Kyōsai |
(1679-1732) A scholar of Suika Shintō and Confucianism in the mid-Edo period. Born in Kyoto in 1679, his style name was Shiin, his formal names were Masayoshi and Yukiyasu, and his epistolary names included Kyōsai, Bōnanken, and Hikei. A student of Asami Keisai, Wakabayashi and fel... |
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Wakahirume |
[Wakahirume no mikoto] (Nihongi) A kami of uncertain identity appearing in an "alternate writing" transmitted in Nihongi 's "divine age" chapters. Wakahirume is sometimes identified as the child or younger sister of Amaterasu, or as Amaterasu herself. Th... |
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Wakamiya |
A general term referring to a minor shrine serving the kami of a separate main shrine ( hongū ), or to its related kami . Shintō myōmoku ruijūshō ; defines wakamiya as a shrine dedicated to the offspring ( mikogami ) of the kami worshiped at a main shrine, or to the newly apportioned branch ... |
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Wakamizu Matsuri |
"'First water of the year' festival." A rite for drawing the first water of the year held on New Year's Day at Himukai Shrine in Yamashina Ward, Kyoto. A rite takes place at 3 a.m. in which the first waters are drawn from the Asahi spring on the shrine grounds ( keidai ). The wate... |
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