Kunitama
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Kunitama (国魂) is a type of provincial tutelary deity in shinto.[1] Ōkuninushi is called by the epithet Okunitama no Kami in Tokyo[2] ja:国魂 Yamato Okunitama is the Kunitama of Yamato Province sometimes identified with Ōmononushi.
A generic "Kunitama" was among the Three Pioneer Kami (開拓三神 Kaitaku Sanjin) Ōkunitama, Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona used in Japanese colonial shrines. [3]:61.[4]:53-54 They are all Kunitsukami or earthly kami representing the land..[4]:53-54 In Korea Kunitama and Amaterasu were enshrined together. [3]:126 as a pair at all nationally ranked shrines..[3]:139 The colonization of Korea marked the beginning of a shift frrom a meiji era "pioneer theology" to a universal theology and Amaterasu became more prominent and was generally paired with Kunitama.[3]:217
In Korea[edit]
Some people identified Dangun with Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the government not wanting to take a stand on this enshrined the generic Okunitama at Chōsen Jingu so believers could have their own interpretations.[4]:54 Ogasawara Shozo was a strong advocate of these positions and his advocacy was associated with the enshrinement of Okunitama at both Chōsen Jingu, and Keijo Shrine.[4]:56 He advocated enshrining of Dangun at Chōsen Shrine, and others argued that in Korea Kunitama was Dangun and should be called Chosen kunitama.[3]:132
In 1936 Keijo Shrine relased a memo saying that Okunitama was in fact a generic title forr any Korean deity and not Dangun. The name was also changed to Kunitama-no-Okami as a parallel to Amaterasu Omikami [3]:140
An ethnic Korean group proposed to take over Okunitama worship after the war but was denied.[4]:57
Ogasawara also proposed a system where Japanese people in the colonies were seen as Amatsukami and natives were seen as Kunitsukami.[4]:60
State authorities at Chōsen Jingu however never allowed for Okunitama to be called "Chosen kunitama" and indigenous Dangun traditions were suppressed in favor of worshipping Amaterasu in the shrine.[4]:54
Other areas[edit]
In Manchukuo there were proposals to identify Kunitama with Nurhaci but they were not accepted..[3]:161
At Mōkyō Jinja Genghis Khan was venerated as Kunitama.[3]:175
In Brazil in a Japanese settlement a shrine named Bogure Jinja was created and worshipped Kunitama, identified with indigenous people of the area in a burial mound..[3]:209
List of Kunitama[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Encyclopedia of Shinto詳細".
- ↑ Nelson, John (1994). "Land Calming and Claiming Rituals in Contemporary Japan". Journal of Ritual Studies. 8 (2): 19–40. ISSN 0890-1112. JSTOR 44398814.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Shimizu, Karli; Rambelli, Fabio (2022-10-06). Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire. London New York (N.Y.) Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-23498-7. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Kōji, Suga; 𨀉𠄈 (2010). "A Concept of "Overseas Shinto Shrines": A Pantheistic Attempt by Ogasawara Shōzō and Its Limitations". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 37 (1): 47–74. ISSN 0304-1042. JSTOR 27822899.
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