Guardian Kami 2
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Guardian Kami is a God enshrined to protect a specific Building or a certain area of land. Nowadays, it is often equated with Ujigami, the god of birth.[1] A shrine that enshrines a Shinto god is called a jinjinsha. A shrine that enshrines a guardian deity is called a jinjinsha.
Overview[edit]
It is said to have originated in the Chinese temple gods. In Japan, as Buddhism was introduced and Shinbutsu-shūgō progressed, Shinto deities were enshrined to protect temples, and later Shinto deities were also enshrined in buildings other than temples and in certain areas of land. Later, Shinto deities were also enshrined in buildings other than temples and in certain areas of land.
Nowadays, it is often thought that the jinchujin is the deity that lives in the land (Jinushigami), but if we trace back to the beginning, the jinchujin was a newly enshrined deity to suppress and subjugate the jishu kami. In other words, when people built man-made structures on a certain land, they would enshrine a new deity with stronger spiritual power than the landowner deity in order to prevent the divine spirit dwelling in the land from haunting and harming people and structures. The landowner deity was expected to obediently submit to the guardian deity and to protect and assist the guardian deity in its activities (sometimes the landowner deity would resist and cause a haunting).[citation needed]。
However, with time, the original meaning of the Shinto gods was forgotten, and the Shinto gods were confused with the landowner gods, which resulted in a conflation of the two. These guardian deities were enshrined in Buddhist temples, Mansions, Shōens, and Castles, and also in Villages.
The reason why the gods were enshrined as guardian deities in villages is thought to be that in the conflict between a village and the Gōzoku that governed the surrounding area, the village began to enshrine shrines as guardians to counter the spiritual authority of the clan gods enshrined by the Gōzoku.[citation needed]。
Jingu-sha[edit]
Shrines erected in conjunction with Buddhist temples were called jingu-sha. The synonym (which is mainly a shrine) is called Jinguji. In addition, when a Buddhist temple is the guardian of an institution, it is sometimes referred to as a jinchu-ji, jinchu-do, or jinchu-den.
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Jieizan Enryu-ji Temple's main hall and Inari Shrine (Inari Daimyojin/Dyakini-ten)
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Jinjaku reiatsu deity, Ryusei Sanpo Daimoku deity (Inumiyama Shichibutaki Temple)
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Kori Teimu Paradise (Kannon-ji Temple, Cypress Tail Mountain)
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Jindo Hall, Jizo Hall, Goma Hall (I worship Mt. Mandala Temple)
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Sanno Gongen-do (Makiyama Hanwakain Director Fukuji)
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See also[edit]
- List of Japanese deities
- Festival（Shōka (music)） - The jinchu-gami appears as the village deity at the center of the village festival.
- Ujigami
- Jinushigami
References[edit]
- ↑ "神社とまつりの知識 氏神・産土神・鎮守神". Ōsaki Hachimangū. 2004. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
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