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shinto

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  • everything has a god/spirit
  • ethnic religious tradition
  • relationship between japanese people, land, and kami (dieties)
  • native to japan and differentiates it
  • when baby is born go to shrine
  • dont hurt anything
  • kindness
  • go to shrine to ask for a favor
  • you cannot visit a shrine one month after a death
  • national faith of japan
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Buddhism

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  • go to temple when someone dies
  • originated in india
  • strive for enlightenment while reaching down to help others (jogu bodai geke shujo)
  • values various figures of worship and powers they were said to bestow (buddhism offered a further extensions of shinto trandition)
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confucianism

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  • how to behave in society while youre here
  • respect elders, friends
  • filial piety
  • ancestor veneration
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3 traditions

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  • foundation of japanese culture
  • buddhism
  • shinto
  • Confucianism
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hospitality

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  • yes please -> impolite in japan
  • say no thank you
  • in japan you just get it for them so they dont have a choice
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frame of reference

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  • organized religious traditions have found their roots and grown in japan providing a centralizing dynamic through which all the religious traditions found in japan have been interpreted and assimilated adding to the overall picture
  • contributes to a whole that is more than simply the sum of its parts
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Nihongi and Kojiki

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  • manifests shinto
  • spreads ledgends, religion, culture important to shinto
  • Izanami and Izanagi created the land of japan by thrusting a sword into the oceans
  • produced a myriad (a kami) who inhabited and gave vitality to the land
  • Izanami dies while birthing the fire god and Izanagi follows her into the underworld -> she tries to drag him down with her
  • Izanagi escapes and rolls a rock to divide the worlds of living and dead
  • Izanami says if the worlds remain divided shell kill 1000 people a day but Izanagi says he will birth 1500 to replace them
  • Izanagi bathes in water to purify him and births other kami including Amaterasu (sun goddess)
  • Imperial line claims descent from from Amaterasu -> kami are present in the land and connect them to humans -> benefits humans
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Izanamis death

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  • shows that death before its time is unnatural and disruptive
  • reminder that death may intrude life
  • separate life and death
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relationship between humans and kami

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  • continuity between humans and kami means that humans can become kami through continuation of the qualities marked in their life
  • ex. Sugawara Michizane was exiled for political intrigue and a series of misfortunes struck Kyoto -> he was built a shrine and considered a kami -> transformed into something beneficial for the living -> enshrined as Tenjin the kami of learning
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Emporers

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  • enshrined
  • unity
  • kami hachiman
  • especially during Meiji
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living kami (ikigami)

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-Emperor during Meiji was considered a living kami

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kami

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  • represent a life force
  • source and manifestation of energy found in the world
  • benefactors of the benefits of that force
  • upholders of life and its goodness
  • unpredictable
  • similar to humans: prone to pique, jealousy, rage
  • must be thanked and respected in order to maintain a balanced productive relationship
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legend of divine

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  • implies that both japan and its people are unique
  • resulted in japans ethnocentrism
  • nationalism
  • isolation
  • result of shinto and even buddhism
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Japanocentric

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  • external entities are frequently Japanised as they are absorbed
  • ex. in Mahikari it says that jesus came to japan for religious training
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yakudoshi

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  • dangerous or unlucky years
  • 33 for women
  • 42 for men
  • visit shrines and temples
  • seek protection from kami and buddhas
  • bad luck is avoided to ease anxiety and guilt
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butsumetsu

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  • death of emperor hirohito in january
  • bad luck day
  • “death of buddha”
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Kannon

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  • buddhist figure
  • embodiment of compassionate mercy
  • vows to save all who call on her mercy and top adopt innumerable manifestations in order to do so
  • contributed to literary genre and oral tradition
  • most popular buddhist figure
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riyaku

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  • go-riyaku
  • benefits acquired through the response of buddhist figures, kami, and spiritual world
  • not limited to this world or life -> people pray for benefit of souls of the dead
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genze riyaku

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-affirms the responsive and fluid nature of the spiritual world and it powers and abilities to five succour to the living in response to human petitions and needs

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mantra and dharani

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  • words of power
  • incantations that had spiritual powers
  • could unlock or summon the powers of various buddha figures to help the living
  • buddhism was introduced with texts -> shows superiority bc japan has no writing system
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sutras

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  • chanted at funerals

- purify soul and transform into state of enlightenment

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Hannya Shingyo

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  • heart sutra
  • most widely used text
  • recited at temples and other religious centres
  • encapsulating the essence and power of all buddhist teachings
  • chanted in times of stress
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Kinpusenji

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  • buddhist temple
  • oni mo uchi (demons also in) instead of oni wa soto (demons out)
  • represent buddhist view that all existence can be transformed and made good
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first encounter of buddhism for japanese

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-in the form of statue sent by ruler of Paekche Korea

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Kaigen

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  • buddhist ritual
  • use chants and prayers that summon up the powers of buddhas
  • essence of buddha is believed to enter the statue
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Buddhism X Shinto

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  • worked together
  • priests would chant prayers that sought to lead kami into enlightenment
  • converting kami and japanese people to buddhism
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Inari the fox diety

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protector of the esoteric buddhist temple toji

  • powerful kami with heightened powers of riyaku bc his association with buddhism
  • previously god of good rice harvest but now looked at as god of business
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preserving shinto

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  • guardians of physical space
  • ceremonies when new buildings are made
  • kami guard buddhist temples
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Toyokawa Inari

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  • dedicated to inari
  • officiants who run the complex are zen buddhist monks
  • shows the buddhist and shinto themes together
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senzo

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  • ancestors who act as guardians and protectors of the continuity and prosperity of the household lineage to which they belonged in life
  • influence rarely extends further than this
  • visits to their grave and o-bon festival and rituals at family butsudan
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tama

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  • each person has a tama (soul) which invested the physical body with life
  • death was a result of the severance of the soul from the physical body
  • soul doesnt cease with death
  • rituals guide dead soul and transform it into a enlightened being
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hotoke

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departed soul

  • also means buddha or enlightened being
  • enlightenment after death
33
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jobutsu

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  • attaining the state of peaceful rest after death

- attaining enlightenment

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ancestors

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  • patrilineal members of the family
  • male who had procreated and helped extend to lineage
  • not all dead (hotoke) would be ancestor (senzo)
  • can give guidance in the form of misfortunes containing inner messages
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death

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  • positive and affirmative
  • natural
  • benefit of humanity
  • spiritual
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ancestor veneration

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  • a reciprocal relationship
  • transform dead soul into a peaceful ancestral spirit
  • ancestors bring fortune in return for butsudan
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butsudan

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  • after ones death
  • make offerings to continue their ancestors peaceful spirit
  • lets them not be forgotten
  • in return the family gets fortune
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fear of death

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  • people fear that souls that died abruptly and angry will bring misfortunes
  • Agonshu- religious movement that contends that all misfortunes are the result of unhappy spirits bc the correct rituals were not done
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memorial

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  • done for animals that are being exploited
  • objects that are no longer usable (printing blocks, dolls)
  • express gratitude
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karma

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  • innen
  • all events have repercussions
  • can be transmitted or shared (blood lines)
  • when “en” is broken problems arise
41
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spiritual blockage

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-sawari, reisho

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psychic retribution

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tatari

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healing techniques

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  • rid of bad karma
  • o-kiyome- transforms spirits into peaceful one or exorcises them
  • rituals
  • these solutions are referred to as miracles, manifestation
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origin of shinto

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  • shamnistic and animistic practices were found throughout northeast Asia (especially korea)
  • not purely japanese faith
  • no documentary evidence of original character of shinto belief bc chinese writing and ideas werent introduced yet
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shinto failed to develop into a unified religion bc people held onto their own beliefs…what beliefs are they referring to?

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page 1 of second assignment

46
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cults of shinto

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  • animism
  • shamanism
  • fertility cults
  • worship of nature
  • ancestors
  • heroes
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architecture of shrines

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  • simple
  • single room (sometimes partitioned)
  • raised from the ground
  • wood with whole tree trunks used for beams
  • outside there is a torii (gateway) and water basin
  • hands and mouth are washed in water basin before entering
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acts of worship at shinto shrines

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  • harai
  • misogi
  • reflect cleanliness
  • attendance- giving attention but also performing ceremonial dances or processions
  • offerings- the first son of the house hold, the first fruits or catch of the szn, booty of war (heads of enemies)
  • dancing- communicate with gods
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Susa-no-o

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  • amaterasu unruly brother
  • banished from heaven for missing his mom and not following order
  • he went to korea
  • showed that gods were no more limited to japan
  • settled in izumo, married the princess
  • ocean storm god
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princess and prince plenty

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  • prince plenty (son of susa-no-o and princess izumo)
  • he was a god only seen at night
  • he appears in the toilet so his wife can see him -> she is fightened
  • he tells her she shamed him and he will shame her
  • the god took human form and went to the mountains
  • she then stabbed herself with a chopstick and died
  • her tomb was built by men at day and gods at night
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Susa-no-o in Izumo

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  • susa-no-o was expelled
  • he went to izumo
  • he saw chopsticks in the river -> he went to find the people
  • old man crying bc a serpent takes his daughter each year
  • susa-no-o tells the old man to set up 8 vats of liquor and 8 gates
  • the snake comes and gets drunk
  • susa-no-o slices him
  • he then built a palace in Suga
  • he marries the girl (izumo princess)
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Kitsuki-no-miya

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  • oldest shrine ever in Izumo
  • Susa-no-o from yamato and izumo princess married -> symbolize unity
  • their son is prince plenty
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enshirnement of amaterasu

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  • Amaterasu was taken from Toyo-suki-iri-him (a princess) and entrusted to Yamato-hime no Mikoto (a princess)
  • she went all around to find a place for amaterasu to dwell
  • Amaterasu says the the province of Ise, of the divine wind, is the land of repair and secluded
  • she chooses to dwell there
  • palace of Iso was built
  • the great goddess amaterasu first descended from heaven there
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Susa-no-o and Amaterasu

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  • Susa-no-o was rude consistently to amaterasu
  • when susa-no-o endangered her she hid in a cave -> caused it to be dark for so long
  • Ama no uzume no mikoto tried doing stuff to get her out -> dancing intoxicated
  • amaterasu was confused how she could be so jolly and came out
  • saw herself in the mirror and came out -> never go back
  • susa-no-o was exiled, hair was plucked out, and gave him guilt
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buddha

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  • will always try to help
  • even bad people
  • only truth
56
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enlightenment

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  • loose urself
  • detach urself
  • no wants
  • no desire
  • you become buddha
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shinto vs buddhism

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  • shinto how life starts

- buddha how life ends

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