Theology of Harai : The Urabes' Study on Nihon-shoki and the Establishment of a Theological System(<Special Issue>Annotating Antiquity)

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  • 祓のテオロジー : 卜部家の『日本書紀』研究と祓神学(<特集>注釈の古代)
  • 祓のテオロジ---卜部家の『日本書紀』研究と祓神学
  • ハライ ノ テオロジー ウラベケ ノ ニホン ショキ ケンキュウ ト フツシンガ

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In the Daijo-sai ceremony (a kind of saturnalia held after the enthronement of the Emperor), a medium recited the words of exorcism called harai. There was a controversy over the way to perform a harai ritual among Shinto priests and mediums, and each insisted on his or her own technique called hisetu. In Shinto, those techniques, annotations on harai, gradually developed into a theological system. Hence "Shinwa" in the "Kamiyo" part of Nihon-shoki came to be re-interpreted as an esoteric text in which the secrets of harai were supposedly written. It was, according to this reading, through an annotative practice a priest gave that those secrets could be reached.

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