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2. Kami - Wikipedia

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   Kami are the central objects of worship for the Shinto belief. The best English translation of kami is 'spirits', but this is an over-simplification of a complex concept - kami can be elements of the landscape or forces of nature. Kami are believed to have influence over the forces of nature and over the affairs of humans.

3. Shinto shrine - Wikipedia

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   The kami the two enshrine play fundamental roles in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, two texts of great importance to Shinto. [45] Because its kami, Amaterasu, is an ancestor of the Emperor, Ise Grand Shrine is the Imperial Household's family shrine. Ise Grand Shrine is dedicated specifically to the emperor.

4. Glossary of Shinto - Wikipedia

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   Musubi-no-Kami (結びの神, lit. ' deity of binding ') – One of the Shinto kami of creation; also known as the kami of matchmaking, love, and marriages. Musuhi – A term in Shinto for the spiritual influences that produces all the things in the universe and helps them develop and complete their cycle. Myōjin (明神, lit.

5. Shinto - Wikipedia

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   A torii gateway to the Yobito Shrine (Yobito-jinja) in Abashiri City, HokkaidoThere is no universally agreed definition of Shinto. [2] According to Joseph Cali and John Dougill, if there was "one single, broad definition of Shinto" that could be put forward, it would be that "Shinto is a belief in kami", the supernatural entities at the centre of the religion. [3]

6. 神 - Wikipedia

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   神 is a Chinese character meaning "spirit" or "deity". It may refer to: Kami, the deities, divinities, spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the Shinto religion; Shen (Chinese religion), a Chinese word with senses of deity, god or spirit

7. Tenjin (kami) - Wikipedia

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   For the first few centuries, then, Tenjin was seen as a god of natural disasters, worshiped to placate him and avoid his curses.However, Michizane was a famous poet and scholar in his lifetime, one of the greatest of the Heian period, and in the Edo period scholars and educators came to regard him as a patron of scholarship.

8. Arahitogami - Wikipedia

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   Akitsumikami is often translated as "divine" or "divinity", but some Western scholars (including John W. Dower and Herbert P. Bix) explained that its real meaning is "manifest kami" (or, more generally, "incarnation of a god"), and that therefore the emperor would still be, according to the declaration, an arahitogami ("living god"), although not an akitsumikami ("manifest kami").

9. Spirit away - Wikipedia

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   Tengudake. In English, to "spirit away" means to remove without anyone's noticing.. In Japanese folklore, spiriting away (Japanese: Kamikakushi (), lit. ' hidden by kami ') refers to the mysterious disappearance or death of a person, after they had angered the spirits (kami).