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10/01/2022

reikoku revelation legends

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reikoku 霊告 revelation - legends

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

.......................................................................　Fukui 福井県 .....
川俣町 Kawamata town

. Kota Myojin 甲太明神 .

.......................................................................　Kyoto 京都府 .....
八幡市 Yawata city

During the time of 太閤秀吉 Taiko Toyoyomi Hideyoshi (1585 - 1592)
the ancestors retreated from Naniwa to Fushimi castle.
They visited 男山八幡宮 the Shrine Otokoyama Hachimangu and stayed there over night.
That night there was a revelation.
The priest held a ceremony and the name of 徳川家 the Tokugawa clan appeared.
That night, Tokugawa Ieyasu had visited 男山八幡宮 the Shrine Otokoyama Hachimangu
and got a revelation that his family would last to the 6th generation.
Indeed, at the time of 綱吉 Tsunayoshi (1646 - 1709), the 5th Shogun, the realm came to unrest.

Otokoyama Hachimangu 男山八幡宮 Shrine Otokoyama Hachimangu, Himeji

兵庫県姫路市山野井町 Hyogo --
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

.......................................................................　Nagano 長野県 .....
小県郡 Chiisagata district 真田町 Sanada town

onimatsu 鬼松 demon pine tree
In 角先渓谷 the gorge Tsunosaki there is a huge youlder called Onigajo 鬼ヶ城 "Demon Castle".
In former times the demons lived there and ruined the land.
At that time, 坂上田村麻呂 Sakanoue no Tamuramaro came to fight with them, but could not win.
He said prayers to 金縄山の観音様 the Kannon Deity at Mount Kanenawasan.
He had a revelation : To cut down the kuwa no ki 桑の木 mulberry tree
and enter the castle from there. Thus he could win.
He bound the Demon with kin no kusari 金縄(金のくさり a golden rope) to
matsu no ki 松の木 a pine tree, now known as the onimatsu 鬼松 "demon pine".
The statue of Jizo Bosatsu nearby is called 鬼松地蔵 Onimatsu Jizo.
. matsu 松と伝説 Legends about the pine tree .
. Onigajoo 鬼ヶ城 / 鬼ケ城 Onigajo "Demon Castle" .
. Sakanoue no Tamuramaro 坂上田村麻呂 .

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日光市 Nikko city

Once a man named 八木主税之介信之 Yagi Mondonosuke Nobuyuki went to 日光山 Mount Nikkozan
to pray for good luck and good business and stayed over night.
In his dream he had reikoku 霊告 a revelation about the times of 元禄・宝永 Genroku and Hoei (around 1700).
The three 日光山 Nikko mountains are:
男体山 Nantaisan（2,486m）, 女峰山 Nyohosan（2,464m） and 太郎山 Tarosan（2,368m）.

. Nikko 日光と伝説 Legends about Nikko .

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04/01/2022

Rokusho Six Places Legends

Shrine Rokusho-Gu 六所宮 / Yufusan Jinja 木綿山神社 / Oita

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The main 六所神社 Rokusho Jinja Shrines
六所神社（山形県鶴岡市） - Yamagata, Tsuruoka city -- 出羽国総社 Dewa no Kuni
六所神社（埼玉県所沢市） - Saitama, Tokorozawa city
六所神社（千葉県館山市）- Chiba, Tateyama city -- 安房国総社 Boso no Kuni
六所宮（東京都府中市） - Tokoy Fuchu city -- 現名称「大國魂神社」、武蔵国総社 Musashi no Kuni
六所神社（千葉県市川市） - Chiba, Ichikawa city -- 下総国総社 Shimosa no Kuni
六所神社（神奈川県中郡大磯町） - Kanagawa, Oisu town -- 相模国総社 Sagami no Kuni
六所神社（島根県松江市） - Shimane, Matsue city -- 出雲国総社 Izumo no kuni
六所神社（大分県豊後高田市) Oita, Takada city

Regional Rokusho Shrines

- - - 東北地方 Tohoku Region
嶽六所神社（秋田県大仙市） - Dake Rokusho - Akita
六社神社（山形県山形市） - Yamagata

- - - 関東地方 Kanto Region
旧六所神社(茨城県つくば市) -- Now Shrine Kokage Jinja 蚕影神社
六社神社（千葉県流山市）
六所神社（千葉県酒々井町）
六所神社 (大田区)
六所神社 (世田谷区赤堤)
六所神社 (世田谷区野毛)
六所神社 (世田谷区給田)

- - - 中部地方 Chubu Region
塩釜六所神社（新潟県岩船郡粟島浦村）
六所神社（静岡県浜松市東区）
六所神社（静岡県浜松市南区小沢渡町）
六社神社（静岡県掛川市）
六社神社（静岡県磐田市）六所神社（愛知県豊田市松平郷） -- related to 鹽竈神社 Shrine Shiogama Jinja
六所神社（愛知県岡崎市）
六所神社（愛知県名古屋市西区）
六所神社（愛知県名古屋市東区）
六所社（愛知県名古屋市北区）
六所社（愛知県小牧市郷中）

- - - 近畿地方 Kinki Region
六所神社（京都府京都市山科区） -- Many in Yamashina district
六所神社（京都府相楽郡南山城村野殿）
六所神社（京都府相楽郡南山城村北大河原）
喜多六所神社（京都府福知山市喜多）

- - - 四国地方 Shikoku Region
六所神社（高知県高岡郡日高村）

- - - 九州地方 Kyushu Region
六所神社(福岡県久山町)
六所神社（福岡県糸島市）
六所宮（大分県由布市） -- 宇奈岐日女神社の別称 Better known as Unagihime Shrine
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- - - Rokusho Shrine - Six Deities
伊弊諾尊（いざなぎのみこと） Izanagi no Mikoto
伊弉冉尊（いざなみのみこと） Izanami no Mikoto
天照大神（あまてらすおおみかみ） Amaterasu Omikami
月夜見尊（つきよみのみこと） Tsukiyomi no Mikoto
素盞嗚尊（すさのおのみこと） Susano-O no Mikoto
大巳貴尊（おおなむちのみこと） Onamuchi no Mikoto
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Rokusho Shrines in Sagami (now Kanagawa) 相模国総社六所神社
They are resting places for the deities on their journey to Izumo.

柳田大明神
一之宮寒川神社
二之宮川勾神社
三之宮比々多神社
四之宮前鳥神社
平塚八幡宮 Hiratsuka Hachimangu
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. kannazuki 神無月 "gods-absent month", 10th lunar month .
The tenth lunar month (now November), after the harvest when the Japanese gods had done their duty,
they left their local shrines for a bit of a vacation.
They would all go for an audience and to celebrate at the great shrine of Izumo,
so the rest of Japan was "without gods".

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. Rokusho-Gu 六所宮 .
Better known as Unagihime Jinja 宇奈岐日女神社 Unagi-Hime Shrine
also read Unaguhime, Unagu-Hime （うなぐひめじんじゃ/うなきひめじんじゃ)
2220 Yufuincho Kawakami, Yufu, Oita / 大分県由布市湯布院町川上2220

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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揖斐郡 Ibi district 揖斐川町 Ibigawa town

. ryuukotsu 竜骨と伝説 Ryukotsu, Legends about dragon bones .
Once there was a drought and the priest from 六所神社 the Shrine Rokusha Jinja
took out ryuukotsu 竜骨 the dragon bones.
And indeed, it soon begun to rain.
But then it rained more and all was flooded.
Since then, the dragon bones are not shown any more.

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Saitama 大宮市 Omiya city

. u no hi 卯の日 legends about the first day of the rabbit .
The first unohi 卯の日 day of the rabbit in the 5th lunar month is related to お六所様 O-Rokusho Sama.
If people plant the rice fields on this day, they will die.

Saitama 戸田市 Toda city / 六所宮 Shrine Rokusho Gu / 六社神社

The sixth day of the 5th lunar month is related to オロクショ様 O-Rokusho Sama.
On this day the deity does the rice planting.
Therefore normal farmers do not plant rice on this day.

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府中市 Fuchu city // 六所明神 Rokusho Myojin

The Deity 六所明神 Rokusho Myojin was once made to wait under matsu 松 a pine tree.
Therefore the Deity dislikes pine trees.
. matsu 松と伝説 Legends about the pine tree / 松の木 matsu no ki .

- - - Tokyo 府中市 Fuchu city

. u no hi 卯の日 legends about the first day of the rabbit .
On the day of the rabbit the Rokusho Deity オロクショウサマ O-Rokusho Sama is planting rice.
Therefore the farmers should not plant rice on that day.
It they do, there will be death in the family.

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07/12/2014

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05/06/2014

Root Shinto

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Root Shinto by Tresi Nonno
Root Shintō

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Shinto is basic Japanese religion.

Along with Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism it shapes Japanese spiritual landscape. But Shinto is often represented as a rather primitive heap of eclectic cults. In this book author tries to eliminate late borrowings and analyse basic concepts and show inner logic of Root Shinto (early Shinto).

- source : tresi-nonno.blogspot.jp/2014/01

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I am Tresi (Tresi is Ainu female name). I am anthropologist from Japan. I have been studying Shintō since 2003, also I am a follower of a tradition.
Shintō is first and the basic religion of Japan. Along with Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism it shapes the spirit landscape of Japanese culture. Shintō is the only religion of Japan which was not imported but is of islands origin.

It is important to note that term Shintō would better be revised because it is just an artificial term invented in the period of Nara (more exactly about 720 y.) in order to distinguish believes of islands origin from Buddhism and Taoism: in the scroll of Nihon shoki 日本書記devoted to the emperor of Yōmei 用明can be seen the following “Emperor believed in the doctrine of Buddha and honor the way of kami”.

Term Shintō （神道） – “the way of of kami” was invented according to Chinese model of naming of different doctrines: as far as Chinese culture is culture of written signs, doctrines and concepts are expressed in written signs and through these signs can be step by step acquired.
Due to this gradually acquire appears the analogy of “way”, i.e. gradually moving to a certain aim but Shintō was not a "way", it was not a systematic doctrine so we should use this term with certain degree of awareness because using it we accept the Chinese point of view.

If we are going to catch the essence/inner logic of Shintō we have to find its root/roots and if we r going to find its root we have to pay certain attention to the history of Japanese ethnicity cause Shintō was shaped along with the formation of Japanese ethnicity.

Japanese ethnicity is a mix of at least three components: Ainu/Jomon, Austronesian and Korean.

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SHINTO – A purely Japanese phenomenon
The origins of Shinto go back to the very earliest times and it is related rather to the animist religions of the ancient Siberian populations.

Shinto gives divine status equally to forces of nature, to animals or to famous people. These divinities are called " kamis " in Japanese and their Chinese equivalent is " shin ". "To" or "do" mean " way " or " method " in Sino-Japanese. So Shinto is literally " the way of the gods ". The most important god is the sun which, among its other virtues, serves as a protection against invasions. So, we can say that the Japanese flag is a Shinto symbol.

The very name of the country, Nippon, is written with two Chinese characters : " ni ", meaning " sun " and " pan ", meaning " root " hence the translation "Empire of the Rising Sun".

Japan comes from the Chinese pronunciation of the same characters, Je-ben. However, the sun does not have a hierarchical role among the Shinto gods : each one has its place. The kami almost always inspire respectful fear. Among these we find mountains, animals like the tiger, the snake or the wolf ; and the Emperor himself. An imperial minister of the IXth century is the kami of calligraphy. There are allegedly 800 million kamis and the nickname given to Japan is Shinkoku, " country of the gods " .

- source : www.1000questions.net/en

nihon - nippon 日本 (にほん / にっぽん)

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