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Yanagita Kunio |
(1875-1962) Founder of modern Japanese folklore studies. Born on July 31, 1875 to the Matsuoka family in Tsujikawa, Tawara Village, Jintō District, Hyōgō Prefecture, the sixth of eight brothers and sisters. His father Matsuoka Misao (otherwise known as Yakusai) was a proponent o... |
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Yano Harumichi |
(1823-87) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the Hirata Atsutane school in the late Edo period and early Meiji era. Born the eldest son of Yano Michimasa, retainer of Iyo Ōzu Domain (in present-day Ehime Prefecture), Yano was an eager student from childhood. In 1845, he trav... |
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Yashikigami |
"Estate kami ," a tutelary kami enshrined on or nearby the plot of land on which a human dwelling is built. Most yashikigami are found in the form of small shrines made of wood or stone, or a makeshift straw shrine which may be rebuilt at the time of each regular observance of wo... |
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Yashimajinumi |
[Yashima jinumi no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Suga no yuyamanushi mina samoruhiko yashimajino ("Master of Yu Mountain in Suga, whose name is Sa[mo]ruhiko Yashimashino"), Yashimano, Suga no yuina saka karuhiko yashimade no mikoto ("the Master of Yu in Suga whos... |
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Yashiro Hirokata |
(1758-1841) Tokugawa shogunal retainer and scholar of Japanese studies of the late Edo period. His common name was Tarō, his formal name was Akikata (which he later changed to Akitora and Akitake), and he had the epistolary name Rinchi. He was born in 1758 in Edo as the son of Tokugawa r... |
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Yaso-shima no matsuri |
"Festival of the Yaso Island." An observance of the ancient to medieval periods occurring only once per generation, as a rule in the year following the Daijō sai conducted as part of the ceremonies for imperial accession ( sokui ). Imperial messengers chokushi (in partic... |
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Yasomagatsuhi |
[Yaso magatsuhi no kami] (Kojiki)(Nihongi) Kami of disorder, produced when Izanagi returned from the underworld of Yomi and underwent ablutions ( misogi ). Yasomagatsuhi or "eighty myriads of disorder" was produced from the pollution which Izanagi had suffered in th... |
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Yatagarasu shinji |
"Rite of the eight-foot-long crow." A rite held the evening of January 7 at Kumano Hongū Shrine in Hongū Town, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture. During this rite, the shrine stamps the image of a jewel on amulets of the Kumano Goō (i.e., the great crow). Also call... |
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Yatakarasu |
(Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names: Yata no karasu( Kojiki, Nihongi ) A great crow sent from heaven by Takagi no kami (according to Kojiki ) or by Amaterasu ( Nihongi ) as a guide to assist Emperor Jinmu on his eastern campaign. Kogo shūi states that Jinmu was guided on his progress by Yataga... |
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Yaya matsuri |
A rite held January 15 at Hachiman Shrine in Amarume Town, Higashitagawa District, Yamagata Prefecture. Shirtless boys from five to fourteen years old wearing straw raincoats called kendai wrapped around their waist, straw crowns on their head, and carrying candles in both hands ... |
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Yayoi Matsuri |
"Third month festival." An annual festival ( reisai ) takes place April 16-17 at Futarasan Shrine in Nikkō City, Tochigi Prefecture. The event was once known as the sangatsu yayoi no matsuri ("third-month yayoi festival," yayoi having been the name given to t... |
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Yomi |
The underworld which appears in Kojiki and Nihon shoki . Also called Yomotsukuni. It is the world that Izanami went to after her death. The appearance and characteristics of this world are not always clearly defined. In Kojiki , the inside of the palace of the Yomigami ( kami of the unde... |
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Yomidonisayarimasuōkami |
[Yomido ni sayarimasu ōkami] (Nihongi) Other names: Sayarimasu yomido no ōkami( Kojiki ), Yomido ni futagarimasu ōkami( Nihongi ), Chigaeshi no ōkami( Kojiki, Nihongi ). "The great kami obstructing the way to the underworld." At the time Izanagi declared his divorce f... |
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Yomisashi Matsuri |
There are many rites for erecting a sakaki tree in advance of a festival. The rite held October 6 at Ōmiya Shrine in Iwade Town, Naga District, Wakayama Prefecture, is called the yomisashi festival. Yomisashi means "to commence purification"; it refers to both having beg... |
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Yomotsu kotosakanoo |
[Yomotsu kotosakanoo](Nihongi) A kami related in an "alternate writing" transmitted by the Nihongi , and which effected the separation of Izanagi and his deceased consort Izanami in the land of Yomi. Koto-saka means to "sever a relationship." Koto can mean ... |
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Yomotsuchimorihito |
[Yomotsuchi morihito](Nihongi) "Guardian of the way to the underworld." Appearing in an "alternate writing" transmitted by Nihongi , a kami that acted as go-between when Izanagi fled from the underworld of Yomi and declared himself divorced from Izanami a... |
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Yomotsuhisame |
(Nihongi) "Hags of Yomi." While the etymology of this name is unclear, it is believed to refer to loathsome women of the underworld land of Yomi, considered as personifications of the pollutions of death. When Izanagi broke his pledge to his dead spouse Izanami, Izanami s... |
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Yomotsukami |
[Yomotsu kami](Kojiki) Kami (singular or plural) ruling over the underworld land of death (Yomi). When Izanagi's consort Izanami died, he visited her in the land of death and asked her to continue helping him perfect the land, which had been left incomplete with her death. Izanami, ... |
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Yomotsushikome |
[Yomotsu shikome](Kojiki)(Nihongi) "Hags of Yomi," considered personifications of the pollution of death. Both Kojiki and Nihongi relate the same mythic elements: when Izanagi broke his promise to Izanami and fled from the underworld land of Yomi, Izanami sent the &... |
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Yorishiro |
The place (or object or person) inhabited by a kami 's spirit when it descends for a religious ceremony or when possessing a person. Yorishiro may take the form of natural objects such as trees or rocks, or implements prepared for use in rituals, such as pillars, banners, or ritual ... |
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