Women in Shinto information

Women occupy a unique role in the indigenous Japanese traditions of Shinto, including a unique form of participation as temple stewards and shamans, or...

of Shintō such as popular Shintō, folk Shintō, domestic Shintō, sectarian Shintō, imperial house Shintō, shrine Shintō, state Shintō, new Shintō religions...

spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, beings...

(career woman in Japan) Overview of gender inequality in Japan Shōjo Women in agriculture in Japan Yamato nadeshiko Nyonin Kinsei Women in Shinto History:...

Shinto weddings, Shinzen kekkon (神前結婚, "Marriage before the kami"), began in Japan during the early 20th century, popularized after the marriage of Crown...

Studies. SAGE Publications. 2012. p. 1539. ISBN 9781412994224. Shinto Shinto shrine List of Shinto shrines Buddhist Churches of America Honpa Hongwanji Mission...

Shinto is a religion native to Japan with a centuries'-long history tied to various influences in origin. Although historians debate the point at which...

Confucian Shinto, also known as Juka Shintō (儒家神道) in Japanese, is a syncretic religious tradition that combines elements of Confucianism and Shinto. It originated...

is the glossary of Shinto, including major terms on the subject. Words followed by an asterisk (*) are illustrated by an image in one of the photo galleries...

Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...

Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its "floating" torii. It is in the city of Hatsukaichi, in Hiroshima...

deities of the Shinto religion. The honden (本殿, meaning: "main hall") is where a shrine's patron kami is/are enshrined. The honden may be absent in cases where...

Japanese history. Female Shinto priests were largely pushed out of their positions in 1868. The ordination of women as Shinto priests arose again during...

qualification. Women can also become kannushi, and widows can succeed their husbands in their job. An Onshi or Oshi (御師) is a lower level Shinto priest analogous...

Ryōbu Shinto (Dual Shinto). The Mongol invasions in the late thirteenth century, however, evoked a national consciousness of the role of the kamikaze in defeating...

traditions. Although often confused with miko, there are also women among the kannushi (Shinto priests). The kannushi wear clothing different from that of...

works at a Shinto shrine. Miko were once likely seen as shamans, but are understood in modern Japanese culture to be an institutionalized role in daily life...

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during...

Misogi (禊) is a Japanese Shinto practice of ritual purification by washing the entire body. Misogi is related to another Shinto purification ritual, harae...

goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. Often considered the chief deity (kami) of the Shinto pantheon, she is also portrayed in Japan's earliest literary...

(御守/お守り) are Japanese amulets commonly sold at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, dedicated to particular Shinto kami as well as Buddhist figures, and are...

origins in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs. It is also considered a Shinto sect, as part of the Kyoha Shintō Rengōkai (教派神道連合会, Association of Sectarian Shinto). Konkōkyō...

came into being in the mid-to-late twentieth century and are influenced by much older traditional religions including Buddhism and Shinto. Foreign influences...

"Female-who-invites"), is the creator deity of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess. She and her brother-husband Izanagi are...

Shinto priest, chief priest of Yasukuni Shrine (2008–2013), epidural hematoma. Don Penny, 91, American actor (12 O'Clock High, The Wackiest Ship in the...

Books. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women who Run with the Wolves (1996), Ch. 12. Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist and Shinto Deities 百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari...

Women in Korea during the 1392–1897 Joseon period had changing societal positions over time. They had fewer rights than women in the 918–1392 Goryeo dynasty...

was liberated from Japanese rule. As soon as the Shinto priests withdrew to Japan, all Shinto shrines in Korea were either destroyed or converted into another...