{ } n. [ Chin. shin god + tao way, doctrine. ] One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes. [ Written also Sintu, and Sintuism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
[靖国神社 / 靖國神社, Jìng guó shén shè, ㄐㄧㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄕㄣˊ ㄕㄜˋ]Yasukuni Shrine, Shintō shrine in Tōkyō to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals#10317[Add to Longdo]
[靖国 / 靖國, Jìng guó, ㄐㄧㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄛˊ]refers to Yasukuni shrine 靖國神社|靖国神社, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals; Yasukuni, controversial documentary film by Li Ying 李纓|李缨[Add to Longdo]
[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)#6515[Add to Longdo]
[はふり, hafuri](n) (1) (pol) (obsc) generic title for a member of the Shinto priesthood; (2) (See 神主, 禰宜) Shinto priest of lower rank than kannushi and negi#8601[Add to Longdo]
[さかき, sakaki](n) (1) sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); (2) evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)#13471[Add to Longdo]
[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#18363[Add to Longdo]
[ワシントンじょうやく, washinton jouyaku](n) (See CITES) Washington Convention (i.e. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)[Add to Longdo]