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Mountains were among the first, and are still among the most important, shintai, and are worshiped at several famous shrines. A mountain believed to house a kami, as for example Mount Fuji or Mount Miwa, is called a shintai-zan (神体山). [36] In the case of a man-made shintai, a kami must be invited to reside in it. [35]
Kamidana shintai [a] are most commonly small circular mirrors, though they can also be magatama jewels, or some other object with largely symbolic value. The kami within the shintai is often the deity of the local shrine or one particular to the house owner's profession.
Shintai. Mount Fuji is one of Japan's shintai. In Shinto, shintai (神体, "body of the kami "), or go-shintai (御神体, "sacred body of the kami") when the honorific prefix go - is used, are physical objects worshipped at or near Shinto shrines as repositories in which spirits or kami reside. [1] Shintai used in Shrine Shinto (Jinja Shinto ...
Honden. In Shinto shrine architecture, the honden (本殿, main hall), also called shinden (神殿), or sometimes shōden (昇殿) as in Ise Shrine 's case, is the most sacred building at a Shinto shrine, intended purely for the use of the enshrined kami, usually symbolized by a mirror or sometimes by a statue. [1][2] The building is normally ...
Once a yorishiro actually houses a kami, it is called a shintai. Ropes called shimenawa decorated with paper streamers called shide often surround yorishiro to make their sacredness manifest. Persons can play the same role as a yorishiro, and in that case are called yorimashi (憑坐, lit. ' possessed person ') or kamigakari (神懸り/神憑, lit.
Shinboku. The sacred tree of Sugiwabemikoto Shrine, Natural monument. A shinboku (神木) is a tree or forest worshipped as a shintai – a physical object of worship at or near a Shinto shrine, worshipped as a repository in which spirits or kami reside. [1][2] They are often distinctly visible due to the shimenawa wrapped around them. [3]
Shinto architecture is the architecture of Japanese Shinto shrines. With a few exceptions like Ise Grand Shrine and Izumo Taisha Shinto shrines before Buddhism were mostly temporary structures erected to a particular purpose. Buddhism brought to Japan the idea of permanent shrines and the presence of verandas, stone lanterns, and elaborate ...
It is said that the origin of the divine mirror dates back to China. [3] In China, more ancient divine mirrors have been unearthed than in Japan, and compared to the oldest mirror in Japan, the "Four divine mirrors with a rectangular shape inscribed in the third year of Seiryu," which is dated to 235 A.D., the oldest divine mirror in China is the "Leaf Vein Mirror (葉脈文鏡, Yōmyaku bun ...