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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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Zaō Gongen |
The "Avatar Zaō," also known as Kongō Zaō Bosatsu ("Bodhisattva Zaō of the Diamond Realm"), a deity unique to Japan's Shugendō sect. Originally a tutelary of Buddhism, Shūkongōshin (Skt. Vajrapani) evolved successively into the Bodhisattva Kongō Zaō and t... |
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Zen-aku |
The term can also be read as " yoshi-ashi ." It is a value-oriented pair of opposing words. The content of this oppositional pair of concepts is explained as referring to good or bad luck, right or wrong, pure or impure, beauty or ugliness, superiority or inferiority and sim... |
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Zenrinkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Rikihisa Tatsusai (1906-77). Rikihisa's father Tatsususaburō had been a spirit medium and head of a regional branch of Shintō Jikkōkyō, but after his death, his son Tatsusai vowed to undertake twenty years of practice to save all the suffer... |
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Zokushintōtaii |
(Hirata Atsutane) This is a work written by Hirata Atsutane in four volumes. It is also called Fugaku danbei . It is a record of lectures that concluded in 1811, and belongs to the group of works known as the " Taii mono " (things dealing with the great meaning), including Kodō ... |
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Zōkasanshin |
"Three kami of creation." According to Kojiki 's account of the formation of the world, the three kami which procreated first in the Plain of High Heaven (Takamanohara), namely, Amenominakanushi, Takamimusuhi, and Kamimusuhi. Each of these three came into being as a &q... |
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meijōseichoku |
Literally, brightness, purity, sincerity and uprightness. In Shinto, this term is used to express the ideal state of one's heart. Meijōseichoku incorporates the ideas of a true heart, a sincere heart, an upright heart, and a readiness to serve the kami . When appearing in the imperi... |
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§ Combinatory Kami |
[Shinbutsu Shūgō] Often translated " kami -buddha syncretism," shinbutsu shūgō refers to the complex phenomenon of "combinatory" interaction between Japanese beliefs in jingi or kami ("deities"), and the foreign, established religion of Bu... |
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§ Definitions and Typology |
A. Definitions Throughout history, numerous attempts have been made to define the term kami, since the early commentary Man'yōshū chūshaku ( Sengakushō ) by the Tendai priest Sengaku (1203-?) in the early Kamakura period and the Jindai no maki kuketsu by Inbe no Masamichi in the per... |
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§ History and Typology of Shrine Architecture |
History and Typology of Shrine Architecture Because shrine grounds or precincts ( keidai ) are considered sacred areas, a boundary of some kind is used to demarcate the shrine grounds from the secular world. The road or path approaching the shrine generally features one or more ritu... |
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§ Outline of institutions and systems of medieval and early modern period |
The medieval period was centered on the system, founded in the mid-Heian period, of offerings to the twenty-two shrines of the central imperial court ( nijūni-sha ), the operation of provincial shrines ( ichinomiya/sōja ) located throughout the country, and the observance of impe... |
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§ Policies and Institutions of the Classical Period |
The policies and institutions of Shintō were first established during the formation of the ritsuryō polity (a system of punitive and administrative legal codes based on the Tang Chinese model) in the latter half of the seventh century. The existence of Shintō systems and organizat... |
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§ Shinto-Derived Religions |
In the modern era Shinto-derived religious organizations can be broadly divided into two types, namely "sectarian Shinto" ( kyōha Shintō ) and "Shinto-derived new religions" ( Shintōkei shinshūkyō ). The term "sectarian Shinto" is widely us... |
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§ The History of Shrines |
Jinja (shrine) is the comprehensive term for buildings and facilities constructed for the worship of kami . Shrines may also be called yashiro , miya , mori , and hokora . Shrine Composition Shrines may include the following structures: honden or sanctuary where the kami are enshrin... |
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§ Tokushu shinji |
Observances with a special tradition among the rites performed at a particular shrine. Also referred to as "old-style/traditional festivals" ( koshikisai ). Unlike other contemporary shrine observances, they follow specific procedures and protocols and may have d... |
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