Tamagushi
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Tamagushi (玉串, literally "jewel skewer") is a form of Shinto offering made from a sakaki-tree branch.
They are given to kami in rituals.
References
[change | change source]- Aston, William George, tr. 1896. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Kegan Paul. 1972 Tuttle reprint.
- Carr, Michael. 1995. "Sacred Twig and Tree: Tamagushi and Sakaki in Japanese-English Dictionaries" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, The Review of Liberal Arts 小樽商科大学人文研究 89:1–36.
- Morimura Susumu. 2003. "Freedom of Religion and the Separation of State and Religion: A Japanese Case Study", Hitotsubashi Journal of Law and Politics, 31: 23–30.
- Nelson, John. 1999. "Shifting Paradigms of Religion and the State: Implications of the 1997 Supreme Court Decision for Social, Religious and Political Change," Modern Asian Studies 33:797–814
- Ozawa Ichirō. 2001. "A Proposal for Reforming the Japanese Constitution (1999)"[permanent dead link], in Japan's Contested Constitution: Documents and Analysis, ed. by Glenn D. Hook and Gavan McCormack, 161–176, Routledge.
- Pierson, Jan L., tr. 1929–1938. The Manyōshū. 5 vols. E.J. Brill.
Other websites
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Media related to Tamagushi at Wikimedia Commons- Tamagushi, Basic Terms of Shinto
- (in Japanese) 【早分かり葬儀参列】神式の場合, How to offer tamagushi at a Shinto funeral
- (in Japanese) 神道オプション Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, Shinto ceremonial implements and tamagushi
