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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List of Japanese deities (redirect from List of Shinto kami)
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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