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Yorozuhatahime |
[Yorozuhata toyo akitsushi hime no mikoto](Kojiki)(Nihongi) Other names:Ame yorozu Takuhatachihatahime, Takuhatachijihime yorozuhatahime no mikoto, Honotohatahimekochijihime no mikoto ( Nihongi ). The daughter of Takamimusuhi, and according to an "alternate wri... |
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Yoshi no hōbeishi |
On the occasion of the sokui (imperial accession), the Daijōsai, and the emperor's genpuku (Coming-of-Age Ceremony) extraordinary hōbei (offerings) called Yoshino hōbei were sent to the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) and other shrines to announce impending court ceremonies a... |
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Yoshida Kanemi |
(1535-161) Head of Yoshida Shintō in the Azuchi-Momoyama period (ca. 1574-1600). Born in 1535 as the eldest son of Yoshida Kanemigi, he was also the older brother of Bonshun. He was at first called Kaneyasu, but later changed his name to Kanemi. In his career at court, he reached the ce... |
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Yoshida Kanemigi |
(1516-1573) Head of Yoshida Shintō in Japan's period of warring states ( sengoku , ca. 1457-1568). Born on the twentieth day of the fourth month (May 21), 1516, as the second son of Kiyohara Nobukata (who was the third son of Yoshida Kanetomo). The Yoshida house was at that time led by Ka... |
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Yoshida Kanetomo |
(1435-1511) Shrine priest of the later Muromachi period, and founder of Yoshida Shintō. Born in 1435 as the son of Yoshida Kanena, the Provisional Senior Assistant Director of Divinities ( jingi gon no taifu ), Yoshida was at first called Kanetoshi, but later changed his name to Kane... |
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Yoshida Shintō |
A body of Shinto theory and a tradition that played a central role in kami matters from the late Muromachi through the early-modern periods. The school was founded by Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511), who called his tradition yuiitsu shintō ("only-one Shintō"), sōgen shin... |
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Yoshikawa Koretari |
(1616-1694) A Shinto scholar of the early Edo period, and founder of Yoshikawa Shintō, whose lineage name can also be read as "Kikkawa," and his formal name as "Koretaru." His other formal names included Motonari, Koretari, and Yoritoki, and his common names ... |
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Yoshikawa Shintō |
A lineage of Shinto formulated in the early Edo period by the Shinto scholar Yoshikawa Koretari (1616-1694). Koretari was originally a merchant from Nihonbashi in Edo, but after studying Shinto matters and waka poetry under Hagiwara Kaneyori (1590-1660), an influential exponen... |
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Yoshimi Yoshikazu |
(1673-1761) A Shinto scholar of the mid-Edo period. The characters for his formal name Yoshikazu can also be read as Kōwa or as Yukikazu. His style ( azana ) was Shirei, and his common names included Sadanosuke and Katsuya. His epistolary names included Kyōken and Fūsuiō. The second s... |
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Yoshimura Masamochi |
(1839-1915) Founder of the religion Shinshūkyō. The second son of the warrior Yoshimura Daiji, Yoshimura Masamochi was born on the nineteenth day of the ninth month, 1839, in Mimasaka (present-day Okayama Prefecture). His father had studied Western (Dutch) medicine, and was emp... |
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Yoshino, Kumano Shinko |
Beliefs and practices associated with the Ōmine mountains, stretching from Yoshino (Nara Prefecture) to Kumano, in the central part of the Kii Peninsula (Wakayama Prefecture). This area is the birthplace of Shugendō and its most important site. Yoshino was venerated from ancien... |
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Yubana shinji |
"Sinter rite." A rite held the night of August 2 at Suga Shrine in Setagawa Ward, Tokyo. Straw is burned under a pot of water set up on shrine grounds ( keidai ) to bring the water to boiling. A priest ( shinshoku ) recites liturgies ( norito ) and incantations, stirs the hot wate... |
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Yudate |
In this ritual, water is boiled in a large pot placed before the altar, then a "female shaman" ( miko ) or other religious functionary soaks bamboo grass ( sasa ) leaves in the boiling water and sprinkles it on his or her body or on the other people present. In ancient times, the ... |
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Yuiitsushintō myōbōyōshū |
(Yoshida Kanetomo) This single-volume work is considered to be the main text of Yoshida Shintō. In the postscript to the text, it is claimed that this work was compiled by Urabe Kanenobu in 1024, but in truth, Yuiitsu Shintō myōbō yōshū was actually written by Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-... |
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Yuta |
Spiritual practitioners found in Amami and the main island of Okinawa. They can enter a state of possession during which they communicate with deities and spirits of the dead. In the process, they manifest distinctive spiritual powers and practice magic in the form of oracles ( taku... |
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Yutate shinji |
Water is boiled in a large pot before a shrine's altar in this rite. Female shrine attendants ( miko ) and priests ( shinshoku ) dip bamboo leaves in the hot water and splash the hot water on themselves by shaking the leaves. As they repeatedly splash hot water around the pot in time with mu... |
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Yōfukuki |
(Deguchi Nobuyoshi) This two volume work was written in the early Edo period by the shinkan of the outer shrine of the Grand Shrines of Ise ( Ise Jingū ) by Deguchi Nobuyoshi. Finished in 1650 and published the next year, Yōfuku ki was Nobuyoshi's first work of research on Shinto, writte... |
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Yōgō Matsuri |
A rite held on July 8 at Mikami Shrine in Yasu Town, Yasu District, Shiga Prefecture. This rite commemorates the appearance of the deity to whom the shrine is dedicated ( saijin ), Amenomikage-no-mikoto, on the summit of Mt. Mikami, the mountain where the kami dwells ( shintaizan ). A &... |
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Yōtenki |
This single volume work is generally considered to have been completed around 1223. It is also known by such names as Sannō engi and Hie sannō ki . Its author is unknown. Because it contains a section entitled " Sannō koto " (literally, "Sannō things") in which th... |
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Zassai |
The category of zassai groups together all the shrine celebrations which are not subject to the Regulations of the Association of Shinto Shrines ( Jinja honcho ). The term means "miscellaneous festivals" and the word is similar to Zōka (which is a collection of assorted, ... |
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