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A

Aikido Japanese martial art
Amaterasu Omikami Divinity of the Sun
Amatsumi Pollution from above
Ame no Minakanushi Master of the August Centre of Heaven


B

Bonenkai End of year celebrations
Butsudo Way of the Buddha


C

Chinkon Shinto spiritual exercises
Chinkonto Form of spiritual practice
Chohai Morning worship
Chowa Harmony


D

Daishizen Vast cosmic setting into which we are born

E

Ebisu Guardian kami, particularly of merchants and also of rice fields

F

G

Gohei White paper streamers, cut and folded sacred paper
Gon-Guji Associate high priest
Gon-Negi Junior priests
Gosaijin Enshrined kami
Goshintai Object of reverence
Guji High priest
Gyomando Building where spirits of deceased are revered

H

Haiden Outer worship hall or sanctuary
Haraiden Purification hall
Hatsumode New Year’s celebration
Honden (or Shinden) Main worship sanctuary, main shrine
Hongu Principal shrine

I

Ireisai Memorial ceremony for the war dead
Izumo Taisha Great Shrine of Izumo

J

Jinja Shrine
Jinja Honcho Voluntary Association of Shinto Shrines
Jingu Shrine with imperial connection

K

Kami Divine spirit (either plural or singular)
Kamidana Shelf on which the miniature shrine is placed and the offerings made to the kami
Kami no Michi Way of the kami
Ki Spiritual energy source
Kigansai Prayer of purification for world peace
Kito Type of purification and blessing
Kokka Shinto State Shinto
Kokuryuon-no-Okami Kami of water, life and ki
Kon Soul
Kugyo Ascetic discipline
Kunitokotachi-no-Mikoto The earthly kami

L

M

Mei Life
Michihiko Leader
Misogi Physical act of ritual purification in water


N

Naihaiden Inner sanctuary
Naorai Ceremonial drinking with the kami
Negi Senior priest
Ni-hai-ni-hakushi-ippai The two bows, two claps and a final bow before prayers
Noorito Words of ceremonial, ceremonial address to the kami



O

Obarae The two great days of national purification (30 June and 31 December)
Obon Buddhist festival for the souls of the ancestors
Oharai Purification
Okuni-nushi-Okami Kami of happiness
Onokoro-jima Earth
Oshogatsu New Year

P


Q

R

Rei Spirit
Reishoan Tea house


S

Sakaki Evergreen tree
Sakashio Purifying salt
Sambo Offering stand
Sammi-sangen Principle of the three elements that constitute life: gas, liquid and solid
Sampai Formal shrine worship
Sarutahiko Okami Head of the earthly kami, the pioneer of the way of rightness and justice
Shaku Wooden flat stick carried by Shinto priests
Shichi-Go-San Literally seven-five-three – the children’s festival
Shimenawa Rope that marks off a purified area
Shinenkai New Year parties
Shinsen Offerings to the kami
Shinsenho Ancient ritual based on numerology
Shinko Faith
Shinsen Specially prepared food offerings to the kami: rice (the sustainer of life); water (the basis of life), salt (the purifier of life)
Susuharai Ceremonial house cleaning

T

Taisai Great festival around the third weekend of February
Takaamahara (the Plain of High Heaven, i.e. the entire universe, the cosmos
Takamanohara Translates as the solar system
Torii Great gate
Tsukiyomi Deity of the moon
Tsumi Impurity, wrong

U

Ujiko or Ujiko-sodai Shrine’s committee of representative parishioners

V


W

Waketama Separated individual souls, another way of saying ‘children of the kami’

X

Y

Yashiki-gami Household kami, a guardian
Yomi no Kuni Underworld, land of pollution

Z
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