| 神社 | [じんじゃ, jinja] (n) Shinto shrine; (P) #634 [Add to Longdo] |
| 神宮 | [じんぐう, jinguu] (n, n-suf) high-status Shinto shrine with connection to imperial family; imperial Shinto shrine; (P) #4,819 [Add to Longdo] |
| 太夫;大夫 | [たゆう, tayuu] (n) (1) (See 能太夫) high-ranking Noh actor; (2) head of a school of noh performance; (3) high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); (4) (See 浄瑠璃, 万歳・まんざい) joruri narrator; manzai narrator; (5) (See 女形) female role actor in kabuki; (6) (See 御師) low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine; (7) (太夫 only) lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) #6,515 [Add to Longdo] |
| 獅子(P);師子 | [しし, shishi] (n) (1) lion; (2) (See 狛犬) left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine; (P) #7,085 [Add to Longdo] |
| 鳥居 | [とりい, torii] (n) torii (Shinto shrine archway); (P) #7,555 [Add to Longdo] |
| 高麗(P);狛 | [こうらい(高麗)(P);こま, kourai ( kourai )(P); koma] (n) (1) (こうらい only) (abbr) Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE); (n, n-pref) (2) Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty); (n) (3) (狛 only) (See 狛犬) (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine; (P) #8,318 [Add to Longdo] |
| 宮地 | [みやち;みやじ, miyachi ; miyaji] (n) grounds of a Shinto shrine #13,373 [Add to Longdo] |
| 社殿 | [しゃでん, shaden] (n) (main building of a) Shinto shrine #13,614 [Add to Longdo] |
| 中宮 | [ちゅうぐう, chuuguu] (n) (1) (See 三后) the empress, the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager; (2) emperor's second consort; (3) empress; palace of the empress; (4) building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground; (5) (See 皇居) demesne of the imperial palace #18,363 [Add to Longdo] |
| お宮 | [おみや, omiya] (n) Shinto shrine [Add to Longdo] |
| 下宮 | [げぐう, geguu] (n) building of a Shinto shrine complex built upon the lowest ground [Add to Longdo] |
| 供僧 | [ぐそう, gusou] (n) (1) (abbr) (See 供奉僧・1) monk who attends to the principal image of a temple; (2) Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine [Add to Longdo] |
| 供奉僧 | [ぐぶそう, gubusou] (n) (1) monk who attends to the principal image of a temple; (2) Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine [Add to Longdo] |
| 御札;お札 | [おふだ, ofuda] (n) type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection [Add to Longdo] |
| 御神体;ご神体 | [ごしんたい, goshintai] (n) shintai; object of worship housed in a Shinto shrine and believed to contain the spirit of a deity [Add to Longdo] |
| 狛犬 | [こまいぬ, komainu] (n) (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine [Add to Longdo] |
| 上宮 | [じょうぐう, jouguu] (n) building of a Shinto shrine complex built upon the highest ground [Add to Longdo] |
| 神域 | [しんいき, shin'iki] (n) Shinto shrine precincts [Add to Longdo] |
| 神札 | [しんさつ, shinsatsu] (n) (See 護符) type of amulet sold at Shinto shrines [Add to Longdo] |
| 神棚 | [かみだな, kamidana] (n) household Shinto shrine [Add to Longdo] |
| 大社造り | [たいしゃづくり;おおやしろづくり, taishadukuri ; ooyashirodukuri] (n) oldest architectural style for Shinto shrines (e.g. used at Izumo shrine) [Add to Longdo] |
| 仲見世;仲店 | [なかみせ, nakamise] (n) nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine [Add to Longdo] |
| 鎮守社 | [ちんじゅしゃ, chinjusha] (n) Shinto shrine on Buddhist temple grounds dedicated to the tutelary deity of the area [Add to Longdo] |
| 二十二社 | [にじゅうにしゃ, nijuunisha] (n) The Twenty-Two Shrines (the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period) [Add to Longdo] |
| 禰宜;祢宜 | [ねぎ, negi] (n) (See 神主) senior priest (of a Shinto shrine) [Add to Longdo] |
| 舞殿 | [まいどの, maidono] (n) (See 神楽殿) court music pavilion in a Shinto shrine; kagura hall [Add to Longdo] |
| 仏詣;物詣 | [ぶっけい, bukkei] (n) act of visiting a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple [Add to Longdo] |
| 幣束 | [へいそく, heisoku] (n) offerings of rope, paper, etc. hung on trees in Shinto shrines [Add to Longdo] |
| 祓殿 | [はらえどの;はらいどの;はらいでん, haraedono ; haraidono ; haraiden] (n) purification hall of a Shinto shrine [Add to Longdo] |
