Shinto

Words JMdict files under Shinto.

129 words.

  1. 合祀 (ごうし) enshrining together
  2. 巫女 (みこ) miko
  3. 八幡 (はちまん) Hachiman (god of war)
  4. 大社 (たいしゃ) grand shrine
  5. 宮司 (ぐうじ) chief priest
  6. 神仏分離 (しんぶつぶんり) separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)
  7. 氏子 (うじこ) shrine parishioner
  8. 幣帛 (へいはく) offering of cloth (rope, paper, etc.)
  9. 稲荷神社 (いなりじんじゃ) Inari shrine
  10. 氏神 (うじがみ) patron god
  11. 参宮 (さんぐう) pilgrimage (esp. to the Ise Grand Shrine)
  12. 禊 (みそぎ) purification ceremony (performed with water)
  13. 絵馬 (えま) votive tablet
  14. 神体 (しんたい) shintai
  15. 八幡宮 (はちまんぐう) shrine dedicated to Hachiman
  16. 御神体 (ごしんたい) shintai
  17. 神棚 (かみだな) kamidana
  18. 幣 (へい) staff with plaited paper streamers
  19. 神仏習合 (しんぶつしゅうごう) Shinto-Buddhist syncretism
  20. 別表神社 (べっぴょうじんじゃ) special independent shrine
  21. しめ縄 (しめなわ) rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
  22. 産土神 (うぶすながみ) guardian deity of one's birthplace
  23. 磐座 (いわくら) dwelling place of a deity (usu. in reference to a large rock)
  24. おいなりさん Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.)
  25. 禰宜 (ねぎ) senior priest (serving under the chief priest and associate chief priest)
  26. 招魂社 (しょうこんしゃ) shrine dedicated to the spirits of the war dead
  27. 祝詞 (のりと) ritual prayer
  28. 地鎮祭 (じちんさい) ceremony for purifying a building site (before building commences)
  29. 神幸 (しんこう) transferring a shintai in a portable shrine, e.g. to another shrine or to a ceremony
  30. 依代 (よりしろ) object representative of a divine spirit
  31. 神幸祭 (しんこうさい) festival celebrating the (temporary) transfer of a shintai away from its main shrine
  32. 大祓 (おおはらえ) great purification
  33. 人神 (ひとがみ) man-god
  34. 二十二社 (にじゅうにしゃ) the Twenty-Two Shrines
  35. アマテラス Amaterasu
  36. 荒魂 (あらたま) wild spirit (one of the aspects of the soul of a kami)
  37. 神体山 (しんたいさん) sacred mountain
  38. 諏訪大明神 (すわだいみょうじん) Suwa deities (esp. Takeminakata and his consort Yasakatome)
  39. 玉串 (たまぐし) branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering)
  40. 仮殿 (かりどの) temporary shrine (houses the object in which the deity resides when main shrine is under repairs)
  41. 権禰宜 (ごんねぎ) junior priest
  42. 権宮司 (ごんぐうじ) associate chief priest
  43. 納所 (なっしょ) temple office (for receiving offerings or donations)
  44. 伊弉諾尊 (いざなぎのみこと) Izanagi-no-Mikoto
  45. 日女 (ひるめ) Amaterasu Ōmikami (sun goddess)
  46. 直会 (なおらい) communal consumption of offerings after a ritual
  47. 大祓詞 (おおはらえのことば) norito read at a great purification event
  48. 梓弓 (あずさゆみ) catalpa bow
  49. 田遊び (たあそび) ritual performance (usually around New Year) to pray for a successful rice harvest in the coming year
  50. スサノオノミコト Susanoo-no-Mikoto (deity, younger brother to Amaterasu)

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