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Arahitogami (現人神) is a Japanese word meaning a kami (or deity) who is a human being. It first appears in the Nihon Shoki (c. 720) as a words of Yamato Takeru saying "I am the son of an Arahitokami".[1]
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In 1946, at the request of the GHQ, the Shōwa Emperor (Hirohito) proclaimed in the Humanity Declaration that he had never been an akitsumikami (現御神), divinity in human form, and claimed his relation to the people did not rely on such a mythological idea but on a historically developed family-like reliance. However, the declaration excluded the word arahitogami.
In Shinto it is normal that a superior person is revered as a God especially after they died, like Sugawara no Michizane or Tokugawa Ieyasu.
It is also linked to the Chinese concept of Worship of the living.
Arahitogami (現人神) is a Japanese word meaning a kami (or deity) who is a human being. It first appears in the Nihon Shoki (c. 720) as a words of Yamato...
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Tokyo, Japan: Asa Shuppan. ISBN 978-486063799-6. Book includes a CD. Arahitogami – Type of divine being in Shinto Humanity Declaration – 1946 announcement...
world conquest". In State Shinto, the emperor was believed to be an arahitogami (現人神) (manifest kami or incarnation of a deity). Following Japan's surrender...
explicitly reject the quasi-official claim that Hirohito of Japan was an arahitogami, i.e., an incarnate divinity. This was motivated by the fact that, according...
are themselves holy by virtue of their intercession with the divine. Arahitogami Kumari (goddess) List of people who have been considered deities Theophany...
1989(1989-01-07) (aged 87) Last Emperor of Japan to be considered an Arahitogami 1 January 1946 Hubert Germain 12 October 2021(2021-10-12) (aged 101)...
Shintō in History: Ways of the Kami. Hitoshi Nitta. The Illusion of "Arahitogami" "Kokkashintou". Tokyo: PHP Kenkyūjo, 2003. Wi Jo Kang (1997). Christ...
without however repudiating that he was a descendant of Amaterasu as arahitogami. Hirohito declared that relations between the ruler and his people cannot...
Emperor Emeritus Akihito and the Reigning Emperor Naruhito is a faux pas. Arahitogami Emperor of Japan Kigensetsu Kofun Erskine, William Hugh (1933). Japanese...
Shinto as its state religion in 1940. Also, God's Light is interpreted as Arahitogami, i.e. Emperor of Japan. The whole of the first line is interpreted as...
to recognize the Imperial Rescript on Education and the divinity or Arahitogami of the emperor. Korea under Japanese rule led to the persecution of Christians...
occupant of the high priestly office was revered as a god in the flesh (arahitogami), the living incarnation or "body" (shintai) of Suwa Daimyōjin. The second-highest...
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