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Itako (Japanese: イタコ), also known as ichiko (市子) or ogamisama (オガミサマ), are blind women who train to become spiritual mediums in Japan. [1] Training involves severe ascetic practices, after which the woman is said to be able to communicate with Japanese Shinto spirits, kami , and the spirits of the dead. [ 2 ]
The term became another word for the country or the location of Japan itself. The term can be used interchangeably with Toyoashihara no Nakatsukuni. A-un (阿吽, lit. ' Om ') – In Shinto-Buddhism, a-un is the transliteration in Japanese of the two syllables "a" and "hūṃ", written in Devanagari as अहूँ (the syllable, Om).
Goze is most likely derived from mekura gozen (盲御前), which also means "blind person" (gozen is a formal second-person pronoun). Although the term goze can be found in medieval records, other terms such as mōjo ( 盲女 ) , jomō ( 女盲 ) were also in use (especially in written records) until the modern era.
[4] [5] [6] The defining difference between clips and magazines is the presence of a feed mechanism in a magazine, typically a spring-loaded follower, which a clip lacks. A magazine has four parts as follows: a spring, a spring follower, a body and a base. A clip may be made of one continuous piece of stamped metal and have no moving parts.
Follower: an old term referring to an on-the-ball player, so named because they were the only players who followed the ball wherever it went. Specifically, the ruck, ruck-rover and rover were considered followers. The term is less applicable in the modern game, where many more players will tend to move around the ground.
Term Location of origin Targeted demographic Meaning origin and notes References Campbellite: United States: Followers of Church of Christ: Followers of the Church of Christ, from American Restoration Movement leaders Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, the latter being one of two key people considered the founders of the movement.
Adding a carbon copy (Cc) and/or blind carbon copy (Bcc) to your email is a great way to loop-in contacts that aren't your email's main audience but still need to have the info. Both Cc and Bcc will forward a copy of the message to those listed but Bcc is used for contacts that you want to hide. No one sees who's in the Bcc list beside you. 1.
A cam follower, also known as a track follower, [1] is a specialized type of roller or needle bearing designed to follow cam lobe profiles. Cam followers come in a vast array of different configurations, however the most defining characteristic is how the cam follower mounts to its mating part; stud style cam followers use a stud while the yoke style has a hole through the middle.