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Old Japanese is usually defined as the language of the Nara period (710-794), when the capital was Heijō-kyō (now Nara).

Jodo Shinshu, the True Pure Land school, is a tradition of Pure Land Buddhism founded in Japan by Shinran and today among the most widely followed forms of Buddhism in that country.

Konkokyo is a Japanese new religious movement founded by Kawate Bunjiro in 1859, one of the oldest of the "new religions" that proliferated in Japan from the nineteenth century onward and, before the Second World War, one of the officially recognized Sect Shinto groups.

A Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism founded by the monk Nichiren in the thirteenth century, who taught that the Lotus Sutra alone holds the full and final truth of the Buddha and that other teachings are inferior or outdated for the present age.

the creator deity (kami) of both creation and life in Japanese mythology.

is the creator of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess.

Ōhirume no Muchi (大日孁貴), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology.

nó̞ mʲí.kó̞.tó̞]), is the moon kami in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion.

([sɨ̥.sä́.nó̞ò̞ nò̞ mʲì.kò̞.tò̞]), is a kami in Japanese mythology.

dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of

pronunciation: [sa.ɾɯ.taꜜ.çi̥.ko]) is a deity of the Japanese religion of Shinto; he is the leader of the earthly

Ninigi (瓊瓊杵) or Ninigi-no-Mikoto (瓊瓊杵尊), is a god in Japanese mythology. (no-Mikoto here is an honorific title

Toyotama-hime (Japanese: 豊玉姫) is a goddess in Japanese mythology who appears in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki.

is the kami of Mount Fuji and all volcanoes in Japanese mythology; she is also the 'blossom princess' and

Omoikane (思兼 or 思金) is a Shinto Kami of wisdom and intelligence.

as Sukuna-biko, Sukuna-biko-na, Sukuna hikona) is the Shinto kami of the onsen (hot springs),

spirit), Japanese dragon and tutelary water deity in Japanese mythology. Ōwatatsumi no kami (大綿津見神; "great deity of

known as Hikohohodemi no Mikoto (彦火火出見尊), is a god in Japanese mythology, the third and youngest son of Ninigi and

May 21, 1173, January 16, 1263) was a key Japanese Buddhist figure of the Kamakura Period who is

Buddhist tradition with significant esoteric elements that was officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese

Emperor Ōjin (応神天皇, Ōjin Tennō; Japanese pronunciation: [oː.(d)ʑiɴ, -(d)ʑin ten.noꜜː]), also known as Hondawake no Mikoto (誉田別尊; alternatively written 譽田別命, 誉田別命, 品陀和気命, 譽田分命, 誉田別尊, 品陀別命) or Homuta no Sumeramikoto (譽田天皇), was the 15th (possibly legendary) Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; Japanese pronunciation: [doꜜː.ɡeɴ, -ŋeɴ], 26 January 1200-22 September 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan.

Hōnen (法然; Japanese pronunciation: [hoꜜː.neɴ], May 13 (April 7), 1133, February 29, 1212), also known as Genkū, was the founding figure of the Jōdo-shū (浄土宗; "Pure Land School"), the first independent branch of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.

Hakuin Ekaku (白隠 慧鶴; January 19, 1686, January 18, 1769) was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism, who regarded bodhicitta, working for the benefit of others, as the ultimate concern of Zen-training.

Emperor Shōmu (聖武天皇, Shōmu-tennō; September 22, 701, June 4, 756) was the 45th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

Japan

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Japan

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Culture: Japan

Culture: Japan

Culture: Japan

Culture: Japan

Culture: Japan

Culture: Japan

Culture: Japan

Culture: Japan

a Shinto-derived Japanese religion founded in 1859

are Japanese amulets commonly sold at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples

In Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, an ofuda

at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan

serves as the vehicle to transport a deity in Japan

They are most commonly found in Japan, the home of kami worship

commonly found in Japanese Buddhist homes

religious object in Japanese Buddhism

was a Japanese Buddhist monk credited with founding the Japanese Tendai school

was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926

is a syncretic Japanese deity

The Kojiki (古事記; Japanese pronunciation: [kó̞.(ɟ̟͡)ʑì.k̟ʲì, kò̞.(ɟ̟͡)ʑí.-], "Records of Ancient Matters" or "An Account of Ancient Matters"), also sometimes read as Furukotofumi or Furukotobumi, is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts dating as far back as 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the kami, and the Japanese imperial line.