noun:

• ritual performance (usually around New Year) to pray for a successful rice harvest in the coming year - Shintō term

noun:

• the Twenty-Two Shrines; the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period - Shintō term

noun:

• staff with plaited paper streamers - Shintō term

noun:

• death - Shintō term

noun:

• norito read at a great purification event - obscure term - Shintō term ➜ 大祓

noun:

• senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest) - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・神主
• grasshopper; locust - obscure term

noun:

• person who judges which god or spirit has taken possession of a miko - archaism - obscure term - Shintō term

noun:

• low-ranking priest - usu. pronounced おんし at Ise Shrine - Shintō term

noun:

• junior Shinto priest - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・禰宜・神主
• Shinto priest; generic title for a member of the Shinto priesthood - polite language - obscure term - Shintō term

noun:

• family grave; ancestral grave; tomb - Shintō term ➜ 墓

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - abbreviation - Shintō term ➜ 注連縄
• cordoning off; cordoning-off sign - archaism

noun:

• shrine - archaism - Shintō term

expression / noun:

• all the gods and goddesses; all the deities - Shintō term ➜ 八百万【やおよろず】

noun:

• steamed rice as an offering to a god - honorific language - obscure term - Shintō term

noun:

• patron god; ancestor deified as a kami - Kyūshū dialect - Shintō term

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

noun:

• reverentially offering a branch of the sacred tree - Shintō term

noun:

• thanksgiving rice dish after childbirth - Shintō term

noun:

• thanksgiving rice dish after childbirth - Shintō term ➜ 産立て飯

noun:

• ceremony for moving a deity to a new site - Shintō term ➜ 遷座【せんざ】・遷宮祭【せんぐうさい】

noun:

• part of the shrine dedication ceremony at the Hachiman shrine in Yoshitomi, where articulated wooden dolls enact a sumo bout - Shintō term ➜ 紙相撲【かみずもう】

noun / ~する noun:

• return of the Emperor (from a visit)
• return of a shintai to its shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun:

• bonfire often in temple grounds, usu. of charms, talismans, New Year decorations, etc. - Shintō term
• ritual burning of money, cedar sticks, or other objects as an offering ➜ 護摩【ごま】

noun:

• transferring a shintai in a portable shrine, e.g. to another shrine or to a ceremony - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun:

• festival celebrating the return of a shintai to its main shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体