Ema (絵馬, lit. 'picture-horse') are small wooden plaques, common to Japan, in which Shinto and Buddhist worshippers write prayers or wishes. Ema are left...
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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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Look up EMA, Ema, ema, or -ema in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ema or EMA may refer to: Anti-Endomysial Antibodies test Epithelial membrane antigen...
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List of Japanese deities (redirect from List of Shinto kami)
native to Japanese beliefs and religious traditions. Many of these are from Shinto, while others were imported via Buddhism and were "integrated" into Japanese...
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A Shinto shrine (神社, jinja, archaic: shinsha, meaning: "kami shrine") is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, the...
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Ema shelf (絵馬掛, Ema-kake) Picture guide (案内看板, Annai-kaban), popularly known as Moe-kaban (萌え看板) As is customary of Shinbutsu-shūgō tradition, Shinto...
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Kasuga-taisha (category Shinto shrines in Nara Prefecture)
Kasuga-taisha (春日大社) is a Shinto shrine in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is the shrine of the Fujiwara family, established in 768 CE and rebuilt several...
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This 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...
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Vasorum Antiquorum Ex-voto Grave goods Votive site Ema (Shinto) – analogous votive objects in Shinto πίναξ, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English...
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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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Shinto is a religion native to Japan with a centuries'-long history tied to various influences in origin. Although historians debate[citation needed] the...
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Hatsumōde (category Shinto)
write wishes for the year on Ema and Toshikoshi-soba is eaten an hour before midnight Saisakimode Ōmisoka Glossary of Shinto Christmas and holiday season...
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Ofuda (category Exorcism in Shinto)
In Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, an ofuda (お札/御札, honorific form of fuda, 'slip [of paper], card, plate') or gofu (護符) is a talisman made out of various...
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ancestor deity for all short-tempered, disobedient yōkai. Amaterasu The Shinto sun goddess, sister of Susanoo the storm god and Tsukuyomi the moon god...
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classes of spirits as highly different,[which?] although some academics and Shinto practitioners acknowledge similarities within the seeming dichotomy between...
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plant—such as a kodama, or an inanimate object which may possess a soul in Shinto and other animistic traditions. Obake derived from household objects are...
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Miyake Hachimangū (category Shinto shrines in Kyoto)
Miyake-Hachimangū (三宅八幡宮) is a Shinto shrine, in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The shrine is famous for worship to beneficial to children, such as baby colic...
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as a syncretic conflation of the Buddhist death deity Mahākāla with the Shinto deity Ōkuninushi. The Japanese name Daikoku is a direct translation of the...
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Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America (category Shinto shrines in the United States)
Torii into a Setsumatsusha Magatama Ema O-mikuji The main Torii Torii reverse from the main Torii Misogi List of Shinto shrines in the United States "Tsubaki...
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Shinto architecture is the architecture of Japanese Shinto shrines. With a few exceptions like Ise Grand Shrine and Izumo Taisha Shinto shrines before...
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Yushima Tenmangū (category Shinto shrines in Tokyo)
using only cypress, and following closely the tradition of Shinto architecture. Main hall Ema offered at Yushima Tenmangu Inari no Kami sub-shrine Reitaisai...
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folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. Shinto traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology. The history of thousands...
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Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples during the Edo period by members of all social classes. The sangaku were painted in color on wooden tablets (ema)...
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O-mikuji (category Shinto)
Omikuji (御御籤/御神籤/おみくじ) are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. Literally "sacred lot", these are...
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disasters, and wars, and the rulers enshrined them as kami and deified them in Shinto shrines to appease the resentment and anger that had turned them into onryō...
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Matsumoto Family Storehouse and Materials; Ryūun-in Matsumae Okiage Song; Ema (Shinto) of a Shipwreck; Matsumae Gion Bayashi Matsumae Han Matsumae Clan Graves...
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teapot, Walters Art Museum Japanese dragons are mostly associated with Shinto shrines as well as some Buddhist temples. Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima...
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of Unfamiliar Japan: First and second series. Tauchnitz. p. 296. Ema, Tsutomu. Ema Tsutomu zenshū. Vol. 8. p. 412. Chong, Ilyoung (2002). Information...
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Earth by the bridge Ame-no-ukihashi (the "Floating Bridge of Heaven"). In Shinto, ame (heaven) is a lofty, sacred world, the home of the Kotoamatsukami....
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Tengu (category Shinto kami)
type of legendary creature found in Shinto belief. They are considered a type of yōkai (supernatural beings) or Shinto kami (gods or spirits). The Tengu...
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