Chinjugami
Chinjugami is a
They contrast with Ujigami by having ties to land and buildings rather than bloodlines. Anyone living on the land worships them regardless of blood ties.[6][7]
Overview
It is said to have originated in the
Nowadays, it is often thought that the jinchujin is the deity that lives in the land (
However, with time, the original meaning of the Shinto gods was forgotten, and the Shinto gods were confused with the landowner gods, which resulted in a conflation of the two. These guardian deities were worshipped in Buddhist temples, Mansions, Shōens, and Castles, and also in Villages.[9]
As for the fact that gods came to be enshrined as guardian deities in villages, it is thought that one of the reasons for this was that in the conflict between a certain village and the Gōzoku that ruled the surrounding area, shrines came to be enshrined as guardians in villages as a form of opposition to the spiritual authority of the Ujigami, the clan gods enshrined by the Gōzoku.[citation needed]
Shinto shrines
Shrines erected as adjuncts to Buddhist temples were called jinjū-sha. The synonym (which is mainly a shrine) is called Jinguji. In addition, when the guardian of an institution is a Buddhist temple, it is sometimes referred to as Jinjū-ji, Jinjūdō, or Jinjū-den.
Gallery
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Sanbo Kojin(Shipporyuji Temple])
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Hariti Hall(Kanshin-ji)
See also
- Chinjusha
- Glossary of Japanese Buddhism § tatchū
- List of Japanese deities
- Festival (Shōka (music)) – The jinchu-gami appears as the village deity at the center of the village festival.
- Jinushigami
- Setsumatsusha
- Ubusunagami
- Ujigami
- Chinju no Mori
References
- ^ "神社とまつりの知識 氏神・産土神・鎮守神". Ōsaki Hachimangū. 2004. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
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- ^ Iwanami Kōjien (広辞苑) Japanese dictionary, 6th edition (2008), DVD version
- ^ a b Suzuki, Kentarō: "Chinjugami". Encyclopedia of Shinto, Kokugakuin University, retrieved on 2011-07-20
- ^ Parent, Mary Neighbour. "Chinjusha". Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System. Retrieved July 7, 2001.
- ^ "あなたの身近な神様たち…氏神様、鎮守様、産土様それぞれの違いを紹介 : Japaaan". Japaaan - 日本文化と今をつなぐウェブマガジン (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-02-13.
- ^ "Jinja to Matsuri no Chishiki". Ujigami, ubusunagami, chinjusha (in Japanese). Hachiman-gū. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ 日本国語大辞典,世界大百科事典内言及, ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典,百科事典マイペディア,旺文社日本史事典 三訂版,デジタル大辞泉,精選版. "鎮守神とは". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-02-13.
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