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Dewa Sanzan Priest Training Institute |
(Dewa Sanzan Jinja Shinshoku Yōseisho) A Jinja Honchō-approved training institute for shrine priests managed by Dewa Sanzan Jinja. It was established in 1962 as a B-rank institution offering a one-year course for trainees ( gonseikai katei ), but in 1980 it launched a two-year pro... |
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Dewasanzan Shinkō |
Beliefs and practices associated with three mountains of Dewa (in present-day Yamagata Prefecture): Haguro (419 m.), Gassan (1980 m.) and Yudono (1504 m.). This grouping became fixed sometime between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; before that, Yudono was consi... |
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Do Shrines Issue Any Inauspicious Fortunes?" |
Omikuji is a popular form of divination in which paper fortunes can be drawn from a box at Shinto shrines. Adults and children alike hope for a lucky fortune, and hardly anyone ever draws an unlucky one. Since it is the fundamental business of shrines to attract good fortune, omikuji th... |
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Dōsojin |
"Tutelary of roads," a generic name for a kami often found dedicated at village borders and intersections as a guard against noxious spirits and evil kami that bring pestilence and disasters to the local community from outside. Frequently called sae no kami , dōrokujin , ... |
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Dōzoku Saishi (Kinship Group-Based Religious Observances) |
Communal worship performed by members of a dōzoku . The term dōzoku denotes a social grouping which, based on a genealogically determined hierarchy, is formed by a main lineage and a number of branch families sharing the same ancestors. From the main lineage, branch lineages emerge... |
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Ebisu |
Together with Daikoku, one of the most popular and well known of the "seven deities of good fortune" ( shichifukujin ). The opulent image of this kami holding a fishing pole or a sea bream is known intimately by people throughout Japan. In addition to those shown above, the n... |
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Ebisu shinkō |
This refers to the cult of Ebisu, a kami of fortune, believed to watch over livelihoods and to bring luck. Since medieval times, Ebisu has been one of the seven gods of good fortune ( shichifukujin ) and is, together with Daikoku, a major representative of all kami of fortune ( fukujin ). ... |
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Eboshi |
One type of headdress worn by Shinto priests ( shinshoku ) during ritual ceremonies. Originally a headdress worn to indicate a man who had celebrated his "coming of age" ceremony ( genpuku ), the eboshi took on various forms, including versions that were heavily lacquere... |
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Edayashiro |
Literally, "branch shrine," a term used to describe a smaller auxiliary shrine located on the precincts of a larger shrine. Also called an edamiya , a shrine whose object of worship, in turn, is referred to as an edagami . The term edagami originally referred to a kami posse... |
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Ehō |
The most auspicious geomantic direction for the given year; the geomantic direction inhabited by Toshitokushin (also ehōgami ; in either case, the kami that heralds the New Year) for that year. It may also be written as "auspicious direction" ( kippō ) or "elder dir... |
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Ema |
Votive tablets bearing illustrations of horses or other scenes offered at shrines, temples, wayside shrines and chapels, as expressions of prayer and thanks. Types of ema range from large, framed pictures produced by professional painters, to smaller pictures painted by unknow... |
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Emaki |
A kind of scroll composed of an illustrated narrative that unfolds as the scroll is unrolled. The origins of emaki are unknown, but they were produced as early as the late Heian period, and they assumed their present form in the twelfth century. The term emaki apparently dates to the ea... |
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En no Ozunu |
(n.d.) A thaumaturge thought to have lived on Mount Katsuragi (or Kazuraki) in Yamato Province in the second half of the seventh century and later known as the founder of Shugendō. Also known also as En no Ubasoku (En the upasaka [a Buddhist acolyte]) and En no Gyōja (En the ascetic), he ... |
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En'nichi |
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Endōtsugan |
(Masuho Zankō) A Shintō text developed for a popular audience which explains in easily understood terms and using examples taken from classical texts the notion that romantic love and longing ( koi ) forms an axis which runs through the whole of the Japanese national entity ( kokutai ... |
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Engimono |
The term " engi " is the abbreviation of a longer term of Buddhist origin, innen shōki (Skt. pratītyasamutpāda , or "co-dependent origination"), but by extension it came to refer to narratives regarding the historical "origins" and miraculous ta... |
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Engishiki |
Procedures of the Engi Era . Engishiki is a compendium of rules and procedures for implementing ritsu (penal codes), ryō (administrative codes), and kyaku (supplementary laws). It comprised fifty scrolls, and approximately three thousand and some hundreds of articles. Engishi... |
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Engishiki norito kōgi |
(Suzuki Shigetane) Lectures on the Norito in Engishiki . Written by Suzuki Shigetane. Fifteen fascicles. Also referred to simply as Norito kōgi ( Lectures on the Norito ). A commentary on the twenty-seven norito found in Book Eight of the Engishiki ( Procedures of the Engi ). This wor... |
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Ennōkyō |
A new religious movement founded by Fukada Chiyoko (1887-1925). Fukada began her religious activities in 1919 after receiving a divine revelation that directed her to serve as the messenger of the gods and their vessel on earth. For five and one-half years, Fukada employed her own u... |
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Enryakugishikichō |
Ledgers of the Enryaku Era Ceremonies . A combination of Kōtai jingū gishiki chō (one fascicle), and Toyuke-gū gishiki chō (one fascicle). This work records the details of the Inner and Outer Shrines of the Ise shrine complex including the scale of the shrines, annual festivals/obs... |
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