A originally pronounced kamunushi, also called 神職, is the person responsible for the maintenance of a Shinto shrine (jinja) as well as for leading worship of a given kami. The characters for kannushi are sometimes also read jinshu with the same meaning. Originally the kannushi were intermediaries between kami and could transmit their will to c...
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(from the article `shinshoku`) In modern Japan an alternative name for the Shint priest is kannushi, which traditionally referred only to a head priest who, through the observance ...
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What a Shinto Priest wears, for example the joe, the eboshi and the kariginu (see photos on wiki), do not have any special religious significance, but are simply official garments used in the past by the Imperial court. Originally the kannushi were intermediaries between kami and could transmit their will to common humans.[2] A kannushi was a man c...
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