• Women occupy a unique role in the indigenous Japanese traditions of Shinto, including a unique form of participation as temple stewards and shamans, or...
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    of Shintō such as popular Shintō, folk Shintō, domestic Shintō, sectarian Shintō, imperial house Shintō, shrine Shintō, state Shintō, new Shintō religions...
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    (career woman in Japan) Overview of gender inequality in Japan Shōjo Women in agriculture in Japan Yamato nadeshiko Nyonin Kinsei Women in Shinto History:...
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  • Kami (redirect from Shinto gods)
    spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, beings...
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  • Shinto weddings, Shinzen kekkon, Shinzenkekkon (神前結婚, "Marriage before the kami"), began in Japan during the early 20th century, popularized after the...
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  • is the glossary of Shinto, including major terms on the subject. Words followed by an asterisk (*) are illustrated by an image in one of the photo galleries...
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  • Shinto is a religion native to Japan with a centuries'-long history tied to various influences in origin. Although historians debate[citation needed]...
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  • Studies. SAGE Publications. 2012. p. 1539. ISBN 9781412994224. Shinto Shinto shrine List of Shinto shrines Buddhist Churches of America Honpa Hongwanji Mission...
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    Confucian Shinto, also known as Juka Shintō (儒家神道) in Japanese, is a syncretic religious tradition that combines elements of Confucianism and Shinto. It originated...
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    deities of the Shinto religion. The honden (本殿, meaning: "main hall") is where a shrine's patron kami is/are enshrined. The honden may be absent in cases where...
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    Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...
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    Ryōbu Shinto (Dual Shinto). The Mongol invasions in the late thirteenth century, however, evoked a national consciousness of the role of the kamikaze in defeating...
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    While Shinto beliefs are diverse, Japanese Shintoism does not condemn homosexuality. A variety of obscure literary references to same-sex love exist in ancient...
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    Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its "floating" torii. It is in the city of Hatsukaichi, in Hiroshima...
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    Miko clothing (category Shinto religious clothing)
    traditions. Although often confused with miko, there are also women among the kannushi (Shinto priests). The kannushi wear clothing different from that of...
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    qualification. Women can also become kannushi, and widows can succeed their husbands in their job. An Onshi or Oshi (御師) is a lower level Shinto priest analogous...
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    Japanese history. Female Shinto priests were largely pushed out of their positions in 1868. The ordination of women as Shinto priests arose again during...
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    Miko (category Shinto)
    works at a Shinto shrine. Miko were once likely seen as shamans, but are understood in modern Japanese culture to be an institutionalized role in daily life...
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    Misogi (category Exorcism in Shinto)
    Misogi (禊) is a Japanese Shinto practice of ritual purification by washing the entire body. Misogi is related to another Shinto purification ritual, harae...
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    Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during...
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    Omamori (category Shinto)
    (御守/お守り) are Japanese amulets commonly sold at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, dedicated to particular Shinto kami as well as Buddhist figures and are...
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    Amaterasu (category Shinto kami)
    goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. Often considered the chief deity (kami) of the Shinto pantheon, she is also portrayed in Japan's earliest literary...
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    Konkokyo (category Shinto new religious movements)
    is a Shinto sect, with origins in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs. It is part of the Kyoha Shintō Rengōkai (教派神道連合会, Association of Sectarian Shinto). Konkōkyō...
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    Okinoshima (Fukuoka) (category Shinto shrines in Fukuoka Prefecture)
    considered a shinto kami, and the island is off limits to women. One proposed reason is that Shinto views blood as impure and menstruation would desecrate...
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    traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. Shinto traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology...
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    Izanami (category Shinto kami)
    "Female-who-invites"), is the creator deity of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess. She and her brother-husband Izanagi are...
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    Inari Ōkami (category Shinto kami)
    and is one of the principal kami of Shinto. The name Inari can be literally translated into "rice-bearer". In earlier Japan, Inari was also the patron...
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    came into being in the mid-to-late twentieth century and are influenced by much older traditional religions including Buddhism and Shinto. Foreign influences...
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    Books. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who Run with the Wolves (1996), Ch. 12. Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist and Shinto Deities 百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari...
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    induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Shinto it is used as a map representing deities, or especially in the case of Shinto, paradises...
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