Women occupy a unique role in the indigenous Japanese traditions of Shinto, including a unique form of participation as temple stewards and shamans, or...

of Shintō such as popular Shintō, folk Shintō, domestic Shintō, sectarian Shintō, imperial house Shintō, shrine Shintō, state Shintō, new Shintō religions...

(career woman in Japan) Overview of gender inequality in Japan Shōjo Women in agriculture in Japan Yamato nadeshiko Nyonin Kinsei Women in Shinto History:...

spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, beings...

Shinto weddings, Shinzen kekkon, Shinzenkekkon (神前結婚, "Marriage before the kami"), began in Japan during the early 20th century, popularized after the...

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...

Studies. SAGE Publications. 2012. p. 1539. ISBN 9781412994224. Shinto Shinto shrine List of Shinto shrines Buddhist Churches of America Honpa Hongwanji Mission...

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...

Shinto is a religion native to Japan with a centuries'-long history tied to various influences in origin. Although historians debate[citation needed]...

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...

Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...

traditions. Although often confused with miko, there are also women among the kannushi (Shinto priests). The kannushi wear clothing different from that of...

While Shinto beliefs are diverse, Japanese Shintoism does not condemn homosexuality. A variety of obscure literary references to same-sex love exist in ancient...

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...

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...

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...

Japanese history. Female Shinto priests were largely pushed out of their positions in 1868. The ordination of women as Shinto priests arose again during...

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...

Misogi (禊) is a Japanese Shinto practice of ritual purification by washing the entire body. Misogi is related to another Shinto purification ritual, harae...

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. Shinto traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology...

"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...

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...

came into being in the mid-to-late twentieth century and are influenced by much older traditional religions including Buddhism and Shinto. Foreign influences...

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...

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...