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A miko (), or shrine maiden, [1] [2] is a young priestess [3] who works at a Shinto shrine. Miko were once likely seen as shamans, [4] but are understood in modern Japanese culture to be an institutionalized [5] role in daily life, trained to perform tasks, ranging from sacred cleansing [4] to performing the sacred Kagura dance.
During rituals or dances, a miko may use a prop called a torimono in her hand. The ritual of handing a torimono from a miko to a dancer during a Kagura dance is called Takarimode. Common torimono items include sakaki, gohei, staff, sasa, yumi, sword, hoko yari, hishaku, and kudzu (kadsura). Depending on the shrine, bells, fans, and trays are ...
Women occupy a unique role in the indigenous Japanese traditions of Shinto, including a unique form of participation as temple stewards and shamans, or miko.Though a ban on female Shinto priests was lifted during World War II, the number of women priests in Shinto is a small fraction of contemporary clergy.
Chikane Himemiya and Himeko Kurusugawa – Kannazuki no Miko; Kagome Higurashi, Kikyo, and Kaede – Inuyasha; Kagami Hiiragi and Tsukasa Hiiragi – Lucky Star; Kaho Mizuki – Cardcaptor Sakura; Machi Amayadori – Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear; Momiji – Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive; Nozomi Tojo - Love Live! School Idol Project [26] Koyori ...
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Painting of a nine-tailed fox spirit from Yanju's tomb, Gansu Province. The earliest mention of the nine-tailed fox is the Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), compiled from the Warring States period (475 BC–221 BC) to the Western Han (202 BC – 9 AD; 25 AD –220 AD) period.
Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) is the goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. (-no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Japanese gods; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the ...