Glossary of Shinto Names and Terms: D

daijôsai 大嘗祭

See Basic Terms of Shinto: Daijôsai.

Links

daijô-sai / "Alone among Women": A Comparative Mythic Analysis of the Development of Amaterasu Theology (by MATSUMURA Kazuo)
Daijôsai / "Alone among Women": A Comparative Mythic Analysis of the Development of Amaterasu Theology (by MATSUMURA Kazuo)

Daikoku 大黒

See Basic Terms of Shinto: Daikoku.

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Daikoku / Wayside Shrines at Urban Train Stations: Religion at the Crossroads (by MURAKAMI Kôkyô)
Daikoku / The Changing Face of Japanese Folk Beliefs (by Norman Havens)

Daikyôsei 大教正

chief-master.

The highest rank in the ranking system for National Priests. See also Proclamation of the Great Doctrine (Taikyô Senpu Undô) and Agency for Spiritual Guidance (Kyôdôshoku).

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daikyôsei / The Fall of Renmonkyô, and Its Place in the History of Meiji-Period Religions (by TAKEDA Dôshô)

dashi 山車

See Basic Terms of Shinto: Dashi.

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dashi / The Sensation of Matsuri (by YANAGAWA Keiichi)
ningyô dashi / Festival and Sacred Transgression (by SONODA Minoru)

(1836-1918). Spiritual foundress of Ômoto. At the beginning of 1892, she became the instrument for passing on an eschatological revelation from the kami Ushitora-no-konjin. From 1894 she began writing down revelations in a journal called Fudesaki, which became the central scripture of Ômoto. In 1898, in conjunction with Deguchi Onisaburô she began the religious movement that resulted in the formation of Ômoto.

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Deguchi Nao / Recent Trends in the Study of Japanese New Religions (by INOUE Nobutaka)
Deguchi Nao / Emperor and World Renewal in the New Religions: The Case of Shinsei Ryûjinkai (by TSUSHIMA Michihito)
Deguchi Nao / Sano Tsunehiko and "Divine Principle (Shinri)" (by INOUE Nobutaka)

Deguchi Onisaburô 出口王仁三郎

(1871-1948). (Ueda Kisaburô). Doctrinal founder and organizer of Ômoto. Had mystical experiences in 1898 and met the foundress of Ô-kyô, Deguchi Nao the same year, after which he began interpreting and proclaiming the revelations contained in Deguchi Nao's Ofudesaki. His main work is the 81 volume Reikai monogatari (Stories of the Spiritual World).