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| Toshi-goi no matsuri |
A new year matsuri praying for a good crop. Literally 'new year prayer matsuri'. See |
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| Toshi-otoko/toshi-onna |
Lit: year-man, year-woman. Said of a person while the zodiacal year of their birth (horse, monkey etc.) is recurring, once every twelve years. Its significance lies in Taoist/ Shinto ideas about dangerous times and directions. See |
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| Toshidon |
New year 'don'. Don means something like a brute or devil in this context. A custom found in southern Japan in which men with fearsome devil masks visit houses at new year, warn children against bad behaviour like the of the North, and distribute toshi-don mochi rice cakes. See |
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| Toshigami |
Year kami. Also known as shogatsu-sama and "year-virtue-deity'. The latter name derives from Yin-yang (onmyodo) tradition and relates to the tradition of or visiting a shrine or temple in an auspicious direction (see Hatsumode) Toshigami is also closely associated with ancestral deities who are welcomed at new year. This season evidently used to be, as still is, a time for welcoming back the ancestors. "Toshigami-sama" is welcomed into the home as an honoured guest. The kami may appear as an elderly couple or be represented, as in Kagoshima, southern Kyushu, by young men disguised as white-bearded old men who like the distribute rice cakes (mochi) to children. A special altar may be set up and offerings arranged in the house for the kami, who is identified variously as a kami of food or agriculture (ta-no-kami) See |
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| Toshitokujin |
A goddess of lucky directions. See |
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| Tosho Daigongen |
The Great Avatar Illuminating the East. Posthumous designation of the spirit of Tokugawa, Ieyasu enshrined at the Nikko Tosho-gu |
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| Tosho-gu haru no taisai |
'Grand spring rite at Toshogu'. A festival now held on May 17-18th (until 1951 it was on June 1st and 2nd) at the Toshogu shrine in Nikko. It honours the first shogun, Tokugawa, Ieyasu (1542-1616) enshrined as daigongen The procession, which departs from Futarasan jinja, visits the and returns to the Toshogu shrine, comprises about 1200 adults and children dressed in samurai and other costumes of the Tokugawa period |
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| Toyama-no-shimotsuki matsuri |
This includes a performance featuring a kamado (a cooking-stove) on which water is boiled. It takes place in Minamishinano-mura, Kami-mura, Nagano, from December 3-16 |
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| Toyo-uke no kami |
The kami enshrined in the geku ('outer shrine') of the jingu The identity of this kami is hard to clarify. She is the food-kami, also the mother or parents (=Izanagi and Izanami) of Amaterasu (who is enshrined in the naiku) and a manifestation of Ame-no-minaka-imshi. According to the gobusho she and Amaterasu are "the kami" of Ise and not personified separately. As an agricultural deity and the kami of the geku administered by the Watarai family Toyo-uke became the focus of popular pilgrimage to Ise. See Shinto, |
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| Toyo-uke-hime |
The kami enshrined in the geku ('outer shrine') of the jingu The identity of this kami is hard to clarify. She is the food-kami, also the mother or parents (=Izanagi and Izanami) of Amaterasu (who is enshrined in the naiku) and a manifestation of Ame-no-minaka-imshi. According to the gobusho she and Amaterasu are "the kami" of Ise and not personified separately. As an agricultural deity and the kami of the geku administered by the Watarai family Toyo-uke became the focus of popular pilgrimage to Ise. See Shinto, |
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| Toyoashi-hara-no-mizuho-no-kuni |
'Land where abundant rice shoots ripen beautifully'. An evocative poetic name used in the and hence in modern Shinto theology for the land of Japan, as opposed to the heavenly realm takama-no-hara. Toyoashi is portrayed in the myths as violent and needing to be pacified by the gracious influence of heavenly kami |
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