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    Ema (絵馬, lit. 'picture-horse') are small wooden plaques, common to Japan, in which Shinto and Buddhist worshippers write prayers or wishes. Ema are left...
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  • Look up EMA, Ema, ema, or -ema in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ema or EMA may refer to: Anti-Endomysial Antibodies test Epithelial membrane antigen...
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    of Shintō such as popular Shintō, folk Shintō, domestic Shintō, sectarian Shintō, imperial house Shintō, shrine Shintō, state Shintō, new Shintō religions...
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    A Shinto shrine (神社, jinja, archaic: shinsha, meaning: "kami shrine") is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, the...
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    native to Japanese beliefs and religious traditions. Many of these are from Shinto, while others were imported via Buddhism and were "integrated" into Japanese...
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    Vasorum Antiquorum Ex-voto Grave goods Votive site Ema (Shinto) – analogous votive objects in Shinto πίναξ, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English...
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  • Shinto is a religion native to Japan with a centuries'-long history tied to various influences in origin. Although historians debate[citation needed] the...
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  • This 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...
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    Omamori (category Shinto)
    (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...
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    ancestor deity for all short-tempered, disobedient yōkai. Amaterasu The Shinto sun goddess, sister of Susanoo the storm god and Tsukuyomi the moon god...
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