Kamidana (神棚, lit. 'god/spirit-shelf') are miniature household altars provided to enshrine a Shinto kami. They are most commonly found in Japan, the home...

rice-cakes. The purpose of the kazari is to bring good fortune to people. Kamidana are a reduced version of shimenawa used in daily life, and are thought...

of nature and prominent landscape locations. The kami are worshipped at kamidana household shrines, family shrines, and jinja public shrines. The latter...

go-shinsatsu (御神札) or shinpu (神符), are often placed on household Shinto altars (kamidana) and revered both as a symbol of the shrine and its deity (or deities)...

Japan. They are usually found adorning doorways, shrine buildings, and kamidana. The origins of shide are traced to the yūshide, a thread made from the...

"food offering") are offerings of foods given up to Shinto shrines or kamidana in Japan. The annual festivals carried out at different times of the year...

artifacts. The term kamiza means "place of honor" and a related term, kamidana refers to the shrine itself. Other artifacts may be displayed throughout...

house. Nowadays, they are usually placed in a household Shinto altar, or kamidana. They are also placed in the tokonoma, a small decorated alcove in the...

abundance around this time. A kagami mochi is placed on family altars (kamidana) on December 28 each year. Kagami mochi is a New Year's decoration, which...

butsudan ownership can often fall below 60%. Gohonzon (Nichiren Buddhism) Kamidana – analogous concept in Shinto Spirit house Reader (1995:55) notes: "Over...

locations, are thought to be home to the kami. The kami are worshipped at kamidana household shrines, family shrines, and jinja public shrines. The Ryukyuan...

be photographed. Many, though increasingly fewer households maintain a kamidana or a small Shinto altar shelf. The Shinto version of the kitchen god is...

dividing a Shinto kami to be re-enshrined somewhere else (such as a house's kamidana), and the spirit itself produced by the division. Shrines conduct bunrei...

for use in Buddhist ceremonies; and many also have Shinto shrines, or kamidana (神棚). When a death occurs, the shrine is closed and covered with white...

such as Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty, Snoopy, Kewpie, etc. Ema Fulu Hōko Kamidana Kanai Anzen Koban Magatama Netsuke Ofuda O-mikuji Somin Shōrai Spirit tablet...

"fetishes", and were respectfully placed and kept in household altars (kamidana). Made and used by the BaKongo of western DRC, a nkisi (plural minkisi)...

butsudan. Their value are also below that of the more highly respected kamidana. The mitamaya is placed in an inner chamber, on a shelf, the mitama-san-no-tana...

conclusion.: 197  Shinto practitioners also worship at home. This is done at a kamidana (household shrine), on which an ofuda with the name of their protector...

A Kaharingan mininature shrine, similar to the Japanese Kamidana...

hexagonal jar, flowering plant and phoenix design in overglaze enamel Kamidana (home shrine) with kagamimochi and ofuda Daruma of various sizes Hamaya...

Shrines recommends every household have at least three Ofuda in their Kamidana, a Jingu Taima, an Ujigami ofuda, and another deity one personally chooses...

ships, there is a Shinto Kamidana (神棚, God-shelf, lit). Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships also often contain a Kamidana. In the Netherlands, there...

A Shinto Kamidana (household altar) in Japan. Note the shimenawa, a rope demarking the sanctuary area seen above, along the ceiling....

"family kami" (氏神 ujigami). Many Japanese houses still have a shrine (kamidana, kami shelf) where offerings are made to ancestral kami, as well as to...

shrines were established in Taiwan. Chinese family altars were replaced with kamidana and butsudan, and a Japanese calendar of religious festivals was introduced...

the house from fires. Other common yorishiro are the small altar called kamidana and the butsudan, which is an altar for the dead. (Butsudan were originally...

is 32 m and 4.39 m across at chest height. The hollow is 10 tatami width and contains a small Kamidana. (Click to see the men standing in the hollow.)...

inspiration for a number of works. The Japanese design firm moconoco released a kamidana (literally "god shelf") modeled after the iPhone in order to "seamlessly...

kamidana cannot be installed in the highest point of the house, the Kanji for 'Cloud' is written on a piece of paper and affixed above the kamidana;...

instruction through strict adherence to a code of etiquette. There are kamidana (miniature Shinto shrine) in the dojo. The basic attitude in Kendo is noble...