jintoku divine virtue legends

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jintoku (shintoku) 神徳 divine virtue, divine blessing
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御神徳とは
神の功徳、威徳であり、これを戴くことをご利益と言います
- source : okayama-jinjacho.or.jp ... -
kudoku 功徳 merit
itoku 威徳 prestige
goriyaku ご利益 benefit

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Jintoku Inari Jinja 神徳稲荷神社 Jintoku Inari Shrine
鹿児島県鹿屋市新栄町1771-4 / 1771-4 Shineicho, Kanoya, Kagoshima

Best known are the transparent glass shrine gate, the tunnel of over 100 red shrine gates, and its large rock said to help people find the loves of their lives.
Another popular feature of the shrine are the ema (votive tablets) shaped like the faces of Inari foxes.
- reference : kagoshima-kankou.com/guide ... -

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jintoku (shintoku) 神徳 divine virtue, divine blessing

If people cut the trees of chinju no mori 鎮守の森 a sacred forest, the shintoku 神徳 divine blessings for the people living close by will be reduced.
Families who own a forest nearby will decline, if they cut too many trees in their forest.
. chinjugami　鎮守神 tutelary deities .

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Fuji no Jintoku 富士の神徳 blessings from Mount Fujisan

Two springwaters on the top of Mt. Fuji are called
Kinmei-sui and Ginmei-sui (Gold water and Silver water).
kinmeisui 金明水 Gold Water
The water is put in bottles and carried home.
The water will never grow bad.
Even during kanbatsu 旱魃 a strong drought the wells will not dry out.
Putting paper in the bottle will make it a powerful amulet.

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....................................................................... Hyogo 兵庫県 .....
南あわじ市 Minami-Awaji city

Manai no jintoku 真名井の神徳 the divine blessing of Manai
When the people of 淡路津名郡沼島 Nu Island in the Tsuna District of Awaji begun to dig a well,
they came to a bedrock layer harder then iron and they could not go on.
But from the well near Hashimangu Sha 八幡宮社 the Hachiman Shrine there came clear water that more than 1000 families could not exhaust.
This is due to the 神徳 Jintoku divine blessing of 八幡宮の三女神真名井 the three female deities of the Hachiman Shrine in Manai.
. Munakata Sannyoshin 宗像三女神 the "Three Female Kami of Munakata." .

真名井神社（まないじんじゃ、眞名井神社） - 島根県松江市山代町 Shimane, Matsue city, Yamashiro town
source : wikipedia




....................................................................... Kochi 高知県 .....
吾川郡 Agawa district いの町 Ino town

. daija, orochi 大蛇 the huge serpent, great snake legends .
A man was almost swallowed by daija 大蛇 a huge serpent, but he used his ax and run away.
There are many similar stories from this mountain road.
Sometimes the serpent hangs in a tree and swallows a man from above.
Pepole whe carry an amulet from 金毘羅 the Konpira Shrine are never attacked.
. Konpira no Miya 金刀比羅宮 in Kagawa .
金刀比羅宮神徳史 History of Jintoku from Konpira Shrine




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. Aburahi Jinja 油日神社 Aburahi Shrine .
the main shrine of Koga where 御神徳 Go Shintoku is held in great respect。




....................................................................... Shimane 島根県 .....
簸川郡 Hikawa district 大社町 Taisha town

- 出雲国日御碕大神宮竜蛇神徳記 Records of Jintoku at the Great Shrine in Hinomisaki, Izumo no Kuni -
. ryuuja 竜蛇と伝説 Legends about Ryuja - a Dragon Serpent .
Sometimes Ryuja 竜蛇 a dragon serpent, meseenger of ryuujin 竜神 the Dragon Deity, appears.
Therefore there are no fires and no drought in Hinomisaki.
At 日御碕神社 the Shrine Hinomisaki Jinja there is a special festival from the 11th to the 17th of October.
During that time the sea is wild and ryuuja 竜蛇 a dragon serpent appears.
. Hinomisaki 日御碕 and Izumo Kaido Highway .

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- reference : nichibun yokai database -

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