Definition of Japanese deity

1. Noun. A deity worshipped by the Japanese.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Japanese Deity

Japanese beech
Japanese beetle
Japanese bittersweet
Japanese black pine
Japanese brome
Japanese bunching onion
Japanese bunching onions
Japanese capital
Japanese cedar
Japanese cherry
Japanese chess
Japanese chestnut
Japanese crab
Japanese deer
Japanese deity (current term)
Japanese dysentery
Japanese encephalitis
Japanese flowering cherry
Japanese foods
Japanese giant salamander
Japanese honeysuckle
Japanese hop
Japanese horseradish
Japanese iris
Japanese ivy
Japanese knotweed
Japanese lacquer tree
Japanese lantern
Japanese lanterns

Literary usage of Japanese deity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Political Philosophy of Modern Shintō: A Study of the State Religion of by Daniel Clarence Holtom (1922)
"... as one of the important agents in the separation of Heaven and Earth introduces intelligible content into the title of this particular Japanese deity. ..."

2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1880)
"... of Happiness are comprised and confounded two different deities, one of Buddhist origin, known in our text as Ben-zai-ten, the other a Japanese deity. ..."

3. Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1827)
"... a Japanese deity, are the only acts of religion that have been observed among them. They have no alphabet, and no coin. They trade entirely by barter. ..."

4. Universal Geography: Or, A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1829)
"... a Japanese deity, are the only acts of relig that have been observed among them. Thoy have no alphabet, and no coin. "• Dumb ь»г- I trade entirely liv ..."

5. Japan and the Japanese: From the Most Authentic and Reliable Sources by Talbot Watts (1852)
"... of fires in honor of Kamoi, a Japanese deity, are the only religious ceremonies that have been observed among then). They have no alphabet and no coin. ..."

6. A Handbook for Travellers in Japan: Including the Whole Empire from Yezo to by Basil Hall Chamberlain, W. B. Mason, John Murray (Firm) (1901)
"... is none other than Kotohira, a hitherto obscure Japanese deity whose name has a convenient similarity in sound. Consequently the great Buddhist shrine ..."

7. A Handbook for Travellers in Japan Including the Whole Empire from Saghalien by John Murray (Firm), Basil Hall Chamberlain, W. B. Mason (1907)
"... is none other than Kotohira, a hitherto obscure Japanese deity whose name has a convenient similarity in sound. Consequently, the great Buddhist shrine ..."

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