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§An Overview of Shintō Texts and of Trends in Research |
Since the early modern period, the mainstream of Shintō studies has consisted largely of the analysis and explication of relevant texts. Those texts purported to record the essence of Shintō are referred to as "Shintō classics" ( Shinto koten or simply shinten ). There e... |
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§Life-cycle Rituals and Occupational Rituals |
Generally, Japanese matsuri can be divided into events that are repeated in yearly cycles, and rites of passage that take place when an individual experiences transitions in rank, status, or space. Such life-cycle rituals as hatsumiyamōde and shichigosan are counted among "... |
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§Modern and Contemporary Systems and Institutions: An Overview |
The Restoration government used the so-called Shinbutsu hanzen rei of 1868 to articulate its policy of separating Buddhism and Shintō, and thus end the practice of Shintō and Buddhist amalgamation ( shinbutsu shūgō ). In 1871, the government then issued legislation defining shri... |
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§Shamei Bunpu (Shrine Names and Distributions) |
Certain shrines are worshipped throughout the country while others are distributed exclusively in certain regions. Okada Yoneo's 1976 quantitative analysis of well-known shrines and their bunsha (emanation or branch shrines) in Zenkoku chomei jinja annaiki clearly indi... |
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Ō imi no matsuri |
A festival of the ancient and medieval eras conducted at the Hirose Shrine by a court-dispatched ritualist in order to celebrate the enshrined deities along with the various "mountain-entrance kami " ( yamaguchi-gami ) of Yamato's six districts. Performed twice annua... |
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Ōbarainokotoba goshaku |
(Motoori Norinaga) Later Commentary of the Ōharae [Great Purification] Incantations . Written by Motoori Norinaga. Two fascicles in two volumes. Revised manuscript completed in the fifteenth of the seventh lunar month, 1795; published 1796. This work is a "later commenta... |
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Ōgetsuhime |
[Ōgetsuhime no kami] (Kojiki) A deity of grains. The name Ōgetsuhime means the "great female of foods" (ge or ke here signifying foodstuffs). The kami is described as an offspring of Izanagi and Izanami, and is also considered a divinized referent to the ancient province ... |
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Ōgi |
Originally a fan for cooling oneself; used as an accessory when ritual vestments are worn in Shinto ritual. Unlike the flat and rigid uchiwa , the folding ōgi was invented in Japan, and is found in two main types, the hiōgi made of thin overlapping slats of Japanese cypress ( hinoki ), an... |
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Ōgi matsuri |
"Fan festival." A summer festival held July 14 at Kumano Nachi Shrine in Nachi-katsuura Township, Higashi Muro District, Wakayama Prefecture. Twelve specially decorated portable shrines (see shin'yo ) known as ōgi-mikoshi ("fan palanquins") are brough... |
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Ōgimachi Kinmichi |
(1653-1733) An advocate of Suika Shintō of the mid-Edo era, born on the twenty-sixth day of the sixth month of 1653 as the last child of Ōgimachi Takatoyo, Provisional Major Councilor ( gon-dainagon , a high court official). Kinmichi used the epistolary names Fūsuiō and Fūsuiken, an... |
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Ōgimachi Shintō |
A lineage of Shinto originating in the transmission of Suika Shinto by Ōgimachi Kinmichi (1653-1733) to the sovereign and court retainers. In 1680, Kinmichi presented a Shinto oath to Yamazaki Ansai, taking up a full-scale study of Suika Shinto, while also engaging in the practice ... |
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Ōgisai |
A rite held February 1–2 at Kasuga Shrine in Kushibiki Township, Higashi-Tagawa District, Yamagata Prefecture. The deity Bonten ( Skt . Brahmadeva, originally a Vedic deity appropriated at an early stage of Buddhism as the ruler of the realm of desire in which our world of Saha exist... |
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Ōharae |
A rite performed in the ancient and medieval periods. Its purpose was to ward off disaster by cleansing oneself of sins and pollution ( kegare ) accumulated unknowingly. The Jingiryō outlines two forms of ōharae . The first is the customary biannual rite performed on the last day of th... |
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Ōiminokami |
[Ōimi no kami] (Nihongi) Other names: Wakauka no me no mikoto ( Engishiki ) The kami worshiped in the festival Hirose Ōimi no matsuri. According to Nihongi 's record for the fourth year of Emperor Tenmu (675 C.E.), worship was presented to Ōimi no kami at Kawawa in Hirose, and to the wind ... |
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Ōishigori Masumi |
(1833-1913) Practitioner of genreigaku , or investigation of the spirit-power of words ( kotodama ). His lineage name was Mochizuki, and he had the childhood name of Haruo, then was given the name Daisuke Kōmu after his coming of age. Born in the eleventh month of 1833 in Ueno in Iga Pro... |
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Ōkamuzumi |
[Ōkamuzumi no mikoto] (Kojiki) The name given to the peaches that saved Izanagi during his flight from the underworld. As Izanagi fled from the underworld of Yomi, Izanami sent the "forces of Yomi" under the leadership of the "eight thunder deities" ( yakusa n... |
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Ōkanmichi |
A movement of the Tenrikyō lineage. In 1912, Yamada Umejirō (1875-1941), a Tenrikyō teacher fired by a sense of divine inspiration, established various Tenrikyō-derived movements such as the Tenri Kenkyūkai (Tenri Research Society) and the Tenri Sanrinkō (Tenri Sanrin Associa... |
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Ōkuni Takamasa |
(1792-1871) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and advocate of a form of Japanese nativism called Honkyō hongaku in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Eldest son of Imai Hideka, samurai retainer of the Tsuwano Domain in Iwami Province (in present-day Shimane Prefecture), ... |
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Ōkuninushi |
[Ōkuninushi no kami] (Kojiki) Other names: Ōnamuji no kami, Ashiharashiko no o no kami, Yachihoko no kami, Utsushi kunitama no kami ( Kojiki ), Ōmononushi no kami, Kunitsukuri ōnamuchi no mikoto, Ashihara no shikoo, Yachihoko no kami, Ōkunitama no kami, Utsushi kunitama no kami (N... |
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Ōkuranushi, Tsuburahime |
(Nihongi) The kami of Okanoura in Tsukushi. According to the record of Emperor Chūai's reign in Nihongi , the emperor was making a progress to Tsukushi (present-day Kyushu) when his boat attempted to enter the estuary of Oka. Unable to make headway up the estuary, the emperor asked hi... |
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