普通の外にいくつかの著名な品質を持っている、と畏敬の念を起こさせるあるいかなるビーイングは、カミと呼ばれています。
It’s some since I added anything to this blog, time to start again.
I have started listing the divine favours (御利益, gorieki) along with the enshrined Kami, in-ground shrines, and festivals. Praying for divine favours is one of the, if not the main, reason why many people visit shrines. Among the most common divine favours prayed for are success with school examinations and for happy marriages. So far I have identified 28 divine favours: for a typical example check out Shakujii Shrine.
I have substantially upgraded my “How Many Kami in Japan?” page. While the upgrade is still far from complete, the page is already much more user friendly, and includes much more detail than before. A
I have now identified 65 divine favours. A large number of them are asking for family-related happiness: family well-being, family prosperity, successful parenting. Closely related are wishes for conj
It turns out that I have restarted this blog with a mistake. I said that 御利益 is read as “gorieki”: in fact, and thank you to my good friend Tim Marrable for pointing this out, its correct reading is “