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Prayers, sutras and words of devotion
Understand what you are reading, then choose whether to recite. A norito is a prayer addressed to kami; a sutra conveys Buddhist teaching. Mantras and dharanis often preserve sacred sounds rather than ordinary sentences.
154 texts have English introductions and source text. All include an English meaning or, for phonetic formulas, English sound explanations. These are distinct from the source words for recitation. The label on each entry shows what is available.
154 readings
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- Prayer for the mountain kami山神祭
An 1897 example thanking Ōyamatsumi for the trees of a mountain and reporting their felling and transport. A historical ritual text, not advice to cut trees.
English meaning included - Prayer at the gate宮門祭
An 1897 example asking Toyoiwama and Kushiiwama to guard the gate, the home, and those entering and leaving. The names follow this edition.
English meaning included - Prayer for safe childbirth祈平産
An 1897 prayer for the safety of the mother and child. Its deity and personal names are placeholders; it is not exclusive to one kami or a medical promise.
English meaning included - Prayer for a peaceful household祈家内安全
An 1897 example asking for harmony within a family, the correction of faults, and protection from calamity. Names are meant to be supplied in the source form.
English meaning included - Prayer on beginning a business祈商業開始繁昌祭
An 1897 example asking for protection when beginning trade or manufacture. Kami, place and personal names are placeholders in the original.
English meaning included - Prayer to Kotohira for recovery金刀比羅大神祈邪気退散病気平愈祝詞
An 1897 prayer addressing Kotohira as Ōmononushi and asking for purification and recovery. This is distinct from a mantra of the general Kubira.
English meaning included - Ullambana Sutra: Chinese text仏説盂蘭盆経（漢文原文）
Maudgalyāyana asks the Buddha how to help his deceased mother. The sutra teaches offerings to the monastic community and gratitude to parents. This edition supplies Chinese text, not a Japanese chant reading.
English meaning included - Inari norito: Hatsutomi Inari version稲荷祝詞（初富稲荷神社の掲載本文）
A prayer to Inari for daily livelihood, the flourishing of the home, and protection day and night. This is the form published by Hatsutomi Inari Shrine, not a universal Inari rite.
English meaning included - Devotional name of Izuna Daigongen飯縄大権現御宝号
A short expression of taking refuge in Izuna Daigongen, published as a gohōgō by Takaosan Yakuōin.
English meaning included - Devotional words to Binzuru賓頭盧尊者への唱え言葉
A short invocation printed by Shōhōji in its introduction to the venerable Binzuru. It expresses refuge through his name.
English meaning included - Twelve Adorations十二礼
Verses praising Amida Buddha and the Pure Land. This is a hymn transmitted in Pure Land Buddhism, rather than a sutra spoken by the Buddha.
English meaning included - Suga Shrine festival prayer須賀神社例祭（八坂同之）
An 1897 prayer praising Susanoo’s defeat of the eight-headed serpent and the song at Suga, and asking for peace in daily life and well-being.
English meaning included - Prayer to kami of learning学神祭
An 1897 prayer to Omoikane, Sugawara, Kuebiko and others, asking to understand books and deepen learning.
English meaning included - Ullambana Sutra: Otobe Donkai’s 1931 Japanese rendering仏説盂蘭盆経・意訳（乙部呑海訳）
A historical Japanese rendering of Maudgalyāyana’s request for help for his mother and the Buddha’s teaching on gratitude, offerings and compassion. Distinct from the Chinese original.
English meaning included - Homage to Tatsuta’s wind kami拝竜田風神詞
A prayer honoring the wind kami at Tatsuta and asking that daily wishes be received and life remain peaceful.
English meaning included - Homage to Kumomi Shrine in Izu拝伊豆雲見社詞
A distant homage to Iwanagahime at Kumomi, asking for life as enduring as a rock. The longevity wish is part of the historical prayer, not a prediction.
English meaning included - Homage before the home altar拝家之神棚詞
A prayer before the household kamidana, honoring the Ise kami and other kami, and asking for protection and perseverance on the way.
English meaning included - Homage to the boundary kami拝塞神等詞
A short prayer to three guardian kami at the parting of roads, associated in this text with keeping calamity away.
English meaning included - Homage to the kami of deliberation拝思慮神等詞
A prayer asking for wisdom in thought and the ability to carry out daily work well.
English meaning included - Homage to Ōmiyanome拝大宮能売神詞
A prayer asking that family and friends gather harmoniously in a home filled with laughter and liveliness.
English meaning included - Homage for the study of antiquity拝古学神等詞
A prayer honoring Omoikane, Sugawara and other kami along with earlier scholars of Japanese antiquity, asking for deep and wide learning.
English meaning included - Ōkuninushi festival prayer: Kinoe-ne大国主神祭（甲子祭）
An 1897 festival example directly addressing Ōkuninushi. This longer prayer is separate from the short shingo associated with Izumo.
English meaning included - Dharani of Great Compassion大悲心陀羅尼（大悲呪）
A dharani directing the heart toward Kannon’s great compassion. The sound-transcription is preserved; its Chinese characters are not translated as an ordinary sentence.
English sound explanations included - Dharani for averting calamity消災妙吉祥陀羅尼（消災呪）
A dharani expressing a wish to avert calamity and live in peace. Its syllables are a sound-transcription, not ordinary Chinese prose.
English sound explanations included - Sandōkai: difference and interconnection参同契
Zen verses reflecting on the distinctness of things and their interconnection. A teaching text, not a prayer exclusive to one figure.
English meaning included - Precious Mirror Samadhi宝鏡三昧
Zen verses on transmitting the teaching and on what cannot be grasped by discrimination alone.
English meaning included - Three Refuges: Sōtō homage verses三帰礼文（曹洞宗の表記）
Verses taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, with the wish to understand and practice the way together with all beings. This is the Sōtō form shown in the cited source.
English meaning included - Three Refuges: Sōtō formula三帰依文（曹洞宗の表記）
Nine lines expressing refuge in the Buddha, the teaching and the community. Kept separate from other schools’ wording.
English meaning included - Homage to the Three Venerable Ones三尊礼文
A Sōtō homage to Shakyamuni Buddha, Dōgen and Keizan.
English meaning included - Universal dedication: Sōtō form普回向（曹洞宗の表記）
A dedication extending the merit of practice to all beings and wishing that all may accomplish the Buddha way together.
English meaning included - Homage to the Buddha’s relics舎利礼文
A homage to Shakyamuni’s relics, expressing the wish to awaken the aspiration for enlightenment and undertake bodhisattva practice.
English meaning included - Verses on the Tathagata’s lifespan如来寿量品偈（自我偈）
The verse section of the Lotus Sutra’s lifespan chapter. It describes the Buddha’s skillful means and his concern to guide beings to awakening.
English meaning included - Short purification words略祓詞
A brief request for purification. It is not a phrase exclusive to the deity whose page links here.
English meaning included - Shrine worship prayer神社拝詞
A prayer of gratitude before the kami, asking to fulfill daily responsibilities and serve others. The text follows the cited shrine’s form.
English meaning included - Verse for putting on the robe搭袈裟偈
A verse on wearing the robe, receiving the Buddha’s teaching and aspiring to guide beings.
English meaning included - Verse for bathing入浴之偈
A wish that bathing may be joined with purity of body and mind for all beings.
English meaning included - Verse for washing the face洗面之偈
Four lines joining washing the face with entering the pure teaching and remaining free from defilement.
English meaning included - Verse of bowing礼拝偈
A verse reflecting on the emptiness and non-separation of the one who bows and the one honored, and wishing liberation for all beings.
English meaning included - Shushōgi: five chapters修証義（全五章）
A Sōtō teaching on living and practicing day by day, presented in five chapters. This reading preserves the school’s context.
English meaning included - Mantra of Light光明真言
The Kōmyō Shingon in the form published by Kongōin and associated here with Dainichi. Different traditions’ pronunciations are not combined.
English sound explanations included - Devotional name of Fudō Myōō不動明王御宝号
Words expressing refuge by calling Fudō Myōō’s name. A devotional name is distinct from a Sanskrit-derived mantra.
English meaning included - Great purification of misogi身曾貴太祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Nakatomi purification中臣祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Great purification of the six faculties六根清淨太祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Threefold great purification三種太祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Purification for the fulfillment of all things一切成就祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Names of the ten sacred treasures十種神寶
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Supreme purification最上祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Essential purification最要祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Kami of the Great Way大道神祇
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Inari Daimyōjin purification稲荷大明神祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Provincial first shrines and concluding prayer大日本国々一ノ宮・結びの祈願
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Great purification of the ten treasures十種太祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Prayer to the hearth kami釜所神祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Well kami purification井戸神祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Prayer to Daikokujin on Kinoe-ne大国神甲子祝文
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Awashima kami Mi-machi purification粟島神巳待祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Konpira kami purification金毘羅神祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Prayer to Ebisu惠美須神祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Tenmangū prayer天滿宮祝文
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Kōshin purification庚申祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Ship guardian purification船玉祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Mishina purification三科祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Prayer of supplication祈念祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Epidemic kami purification疫神祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Hi-machi purification日待之祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Tsuki-machi purification月待之祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Local birthland kami purification產生神祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Purification before sacred observance潔齋祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Mountain kami purification山神祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Sea kami purification海神祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Prayer to the crossroads kami衢神祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Purification for a secure house屋堅之祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Prayer for rain雨乞祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Prayer for calming fire鎭火祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Purification for ancestral spirits祖廟靈鎭祓
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Sequence of homage to popular deities俗神拜次第
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Prayer of distant homage遙拜祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Words of invitation降來要文
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Prayer with offerings to the kami神供祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Words of sending off送納要文
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Prayer with food and sake御食御酒祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Prayer over sacred sake神酒祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Amatsu norito天津祝詞
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Nine-syllable transmission and recitation words九字伝授・唱え言葉
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning + sound explanations - Shingen: sacred words神言
A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.
English meaning included - Nine-section Shakujō text九条錫杖経
A traditional recitation associated with the ringed staff. The cited edition and its divisions are preserved; this is not a prescribed routine for every visitor.
English meaning included - Verse for opening a sutra開経偈
A verse appreciating the rare chance to encounter the teaching and aspiring to understand the Tathagata’s true meaning.
English meaning included - Verse of acknowledging wrongdoing懺悔文
A verse acknowledging harmful actions arising from greed, anger and ignorance through body, speech and mind, and expressing repentance.
English meaning included - Taking and affirming the Three Refuges三帰三竟
Words taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, followed by an affirmation of having taken refuge. The two parts are kept distinct.
English meaning included - Ten wholesome precepts十善戒
Guidance concerning bodily actions, speech and states of mind: avoiding killing, theft, sexual misconduct, harmful speech, greed, hatred and distorted views.
English meaning included - Four great vows: Myōrinji form四弘誓願
Four bodhisattva vows in the wording published by Myōrinji. Its wording is preserved rather than blended with other versions.
English meaning included - Short worship prayer略拝詞
An example introduced by Jinja Honchō for shrine or home worship. It asks for purification, protection and blessing; it is not a particular kami’s exclusive mantra or a required rite at every shrine.
English meaning included - Homage to the wind kami拝風神詞
An 1897 form addressing Shinatsuhiko and Shinatobe as named in the source.
English meaning included - Kannon Sutra: complete Universal Gateway chapter観音経・普門品全文
The complete twenty-fifth chapter of the Lotus Sutra in this 1914 edition, including prose dialogue, verses and the closing scene. This is not the full Lotus Sutra.
English meaning included - Homage to the hearth kami拝竈神詞
An 1897 prayer addressing the hearth kami. The original names and wording are retained rather than replaced with those of a different shrine.
English meaning included - Homage to the well kami拝井神詞
An 1897 example naming Mizuhanome and Mii. It is presented as a historical form of prayer.
English meaning included - Dedication appended to the Kannon Sutra回向文（観音経付載）
Four lines dedicating merit to all beings. Printed alongside the Kannon Sutra in the cited book, but separate from the sutra itself and not exclusive to Kannon.
English meaning included - Dharani of the ten rākṣasī women十羅刹女の陀羅尼
The dharani spoken before the Buddha by the ten rākṣasī women in chapter twenty-six of the Lotus Sutra, in connection with their vow to protect those who uphold it.
English sound explanations included - Verses from the Peacock Sutra孔雀経の偈
A recurring wish in the Peacock Sutra to be at peace by night and day and always held in the care of the buddhas.
English meaning included - Mahāmāyūrī: the Peacock Sutra仏母大孔雀明王経（孔雀経）
A text explaining the mantra and virtues of the Peacock Wisdom King. The edition’s full published text is preserved in the original-language reader; the English introduction is not a full translation.
English meaning + sound explanations - Prayer to ancestral spirits祖霊拝詞
A prayer before a household ancestral altar. The original’s placeholder for an ancestor’s name is preserved; readings follow the cited edition with the additions noted on the Japanese page.
English meaning included - Threefold homage: Tendai三礼（天台宗）
An opening homage to the Three Jewels throughout the ten directions in Tendai daily recitation.
English meaning included - Taking refuge: Tendai三帰依文（天台宗）
A Tendai reflection on the rarity of human life and hearing the Dharma, followed by wholehearted refuge in the Three Jewels.
English meaning included - Precept verse of the seven Buddhas七仏通戒偈
A verse traditionally shared by the seven Buddhas: refrain from evil, practice good and purify the mind. The reader retains the cited Tendai forms.
English meaning included - Saichō’s statement of aspiration: excerpt願文（抄）
An excerpt from the statement attributed to Saichō on entering Mount Hiei. It is an excerpt, not the complete work.
English meaning included - Praise of original awakening本覚讃
Eight lines praising the awakening understood as originally present.
English meaning included - Bodhisattva precepts verse菩薩戒経偈
A verse beginning in the voice of Rushana Buddha and describing innumerable Shakyamunis teaching the precepts.
English meaning included - Rules for Mount Hiei students: excerpt山家学生式（抄）
A passage from Saichō’s rules for students on Mount Hiei, including the expression “illuminate one corner.” The whole work is not reproduced here.
English meaning included - Devotional name of Dengyō Daishi伝教大師宝号
A devotional invocation to Saichō, the founding teacher of Japanese Tendai.
English meaning included - Dedication and aspiration: Tendai回向発願文（天台宗）
A dedication used at the conclusion of the Tendai recitation shown in the source.
English meaning included - Hōnen’s One-sheet Testament一枚起請文
Hōnen’s brief statement on the essentials of the nembutsu, centering on saying Namu Amida Butsu. Presented in its Pure Land context.
English meaning included - Lotus Sutra, chapter two: opening excerpt妙法蓮華経方便品第二（冒頭〜十如是）
The opening through the Ten Suchnesses: Shakyamuni rises from samadhi and addresses Shariputra. This is not the full second chapter.
English meaning included - Hakuin’s Song in Praise of Zazen白隠禅師坐禅和讃
A Japanese hymn praising zazen, familiar in Rinzai practice. Its wording and reading follow the cited edition; melodies and readings can differ.
English meaning included - Verses praising the Buddha讃仏偈（歎仏頌）
Dharmākara, before becoming Amida, praises his teacher Lokeshvararaja Buddha and states his aspiration.
English meaning included - Verses reaffirming the vows重誓偈（三誓偈・四誓偈）
Dharmākara reaffirms his vows after the forty-eight vows. Also called the Three Vows or, in Jōdo-shū, the Four Vows verses.
English meaning included - Devotional name of Kōbō Daishi弘法大師御宝号
An expression of refuge in Kūkai, following the spelling and reading published by Kongōbuji.
English meaning included - Heart Sutra般若心経
A short sutra in which Avalokiteshvara explains the wisdom of emptiness. It is not an exclusive offering to one buddha; emptiness does not mean that nothing exists.
English meaning + sound explanations - Ten-line Kannon text延命十句観音経
A short text recollecting Kannon, distinct from the Lotus Sutra’s Universal Gateway chapter. “Permanence, bliss, self and purity” are terms for nirvana, not an endorsement of selfishness.
English meaning included - Kannon Sutra: Universal Gateway verses観音経・普門品偈
The verse portion of chapter twenty-five of the Lotus Sutra, from “The World-honored One with wondrous marks” to the closing homage. The prose portion is not included in this entry.
English meaning included - Text on Holy Fudō仏説聖不動経
A text describing Fudō’s appearance, compassion, wisdom, sword and rope. The separately recited names of the attendants following it in some books are outside this entry’s scope.
English meaning included - Amida Sutra仏説阿弥陀経
A sutra in which Shakyamuni describes Amida Buddha and the Pure Land to Shariputra. The original-language reading follows the cited edition without mixing schools’ recitation forms.
English meaning included - Great Purification prayer大祓詞
A norito asking for purification. It is not exclusive to one kami. The original text and readings follow the form published by Okuni Shrine.
English meaning included - Purification prayer祓詞
A prayer recalling Izanagi’s purification and addressing the kami of purification. It is not exclusive to Amaterasu, Inari or any one deity.
English meaning included - Home altar worship prayer神棚拝詞
A prayer before a kamidana addressing Amaterasu and the local guardian kami. The altar in the text is a household altar; this website is not treated as a physical shrine.
English meaning included - Sarutahiko festival prayer: Kōshin猿田彦神祭・庚申祭
An 1897 festival prayer to Sarutahiko. Related Kōshin mantras and regional chants are kept as separate texts and traditions.
English meaning included - Kōshin mantra: documented form庚申の真言
A Buddhist Kōshin mantra quoted in a 1956 study from a Shōmen Kongō invocation. The source’s syllables are preserved; it is not called Sarutahiko’s exclusive mantra.
English sound explanations included - Kōshin chant from Tōyama-gō遠山郷の庚申の唱え言葉
A chant remembered as having been spoken before Sarutahiko in a local account published by the Tōyama-gō tourism association. It is one regional tradition.
English sound explanations included - Ebisu festival prayer恵美須神祭
An 1897 prayer identifying the addressed Ebisu as Kotoshironushi. This specific identification is not applied to every Ebisu tradition.
English meaning included - Prayer honoring Sugawara菅原大神鎮霊祭
An 1897 prayer venerating Sugawara. The divine name published by Kitano Tenmangū is provided separately, rather than made into a single combined text.
English meaning included - Tenjin’s divine name天神さまの御神号
The divine name of Sugawara no Michizane introduced by Kitano Tenmangū. The form with Namu reflects kami–buddha syncretism; this is a name, not the full text of a Tenjin sutra.
English meaning included - Kōjin mantra: Kiyoshikōjin form荒神御真言
The mantra of Sanbō Kōjin published by Kiyoshikōjin Seichōji. Its temple tradition is identified rather than generalized.
English sound explanations included - Dakini mantra: Toyokawa form豊川吒枳尼真天の真言
The form published by Toyokawa Kaku Myōgonji for Toyokawa Dakini Shinten. Other traditions have different forms.
English sound explanations included - Shinran’s Verses on True Entrusting正信念仏偈（正信偈）
Shinran’s verses praising Amida’s primal vow and the seven eminent teachers who transmitted the teaching.
English meaning included - Homage to the primordial kami拝太元尊神詞
A prayer honoring Amenominakanushi, Takamimusubi, Kamimusubi and the other separate heavenly kami.
English meaning included - Homage to the heavenly realm拝天日御国詞
A prayer to Amaterasu, the Musubi kami, Izanagi and the kami of Takamagahara, in this historical edition’s formulation.
English meaning included - Homage to Tsukuyomi’s realm拝月夜見国詞
A prayer naming Kuninosokotachi, Toyokumonu, Izanami and Tsukuyomi in addressing the kami of the realm named in this text. Its tradition is not merged with the Kojiki’s genealogy.
English meaning included - Homage to the heavenly descendant拝皇孫尊詞
A prayer praising Ninigi and Konohanasakuya, among the kami named in this edition.
English meaning included - Homage to Emperor Jinmu拝神武天皇詞
A historical prayer honoring Jinmu and successive emperors and empresses, from a collection transmitted into the Meiji period.
English meaning included - Homage to the two Ise sanctuaries拝伊勢両宮詞
A prayer honoring the kami of Ise’s Inner and Outer Sanctuaries and associated sanctuaries. It is this historical edition’s form, not the current official liturgy of Ise Jingū.
English meaning included - Homage to the three eastern shrines拝吾妻三社詞
A prayer praising the kami enshrined at Kashima, Katori and Ikisu.
English meaning included - Homage to Izumo Taisha拝出雲大社詞
A prayer honoring Ōkuninushi and Suseribime at the sanctuary named Kitsuki in this historical text.
English meaning included - Homage to three Yamato shrines拝大和三社詞
A prayer naming Ōmiwa, Ōyamato and Unate and honoring Ōmononushi, Ōkunitama and Kotoshironushi.
English meaning included - Homage to the two Hitachi shrines拝常陸両社詞
A prayer to Ōnamuchi and Sukunahikona at Ōarai Isosaki and Sakatsura Isosaki, praising their work in transmitting medicine and other arts.
English meaning included - Homage to Atsuta Shrine拝尾張熱田宮詞
A short prayer paying distant respect to the kami enshrined at Atsuta in Owari.
English meaning included - Homage to the province’s first shrine拝当国一宮詞
A historical form with placeholders for the province, district and name of its principal shrine.
English meaning included - Homage to the local guardian拝当所鎮守詞
A prayer asking the guardian kami of one’s home village for protection in daily life.
English meaning included - Homage to the purification kami拝祓処神等詞
A prayer to kami born during Izanagi’s purification, asking for the removal of offences and impurity and the ability to fulfill sacred duties.
English meaning included - Homage to the house kami拝屋船神詞
A prayer honoring Yafune and asking for the well-being of the dwelling, including its posts and beams.
English meaning included - Homage to the harvest kami拝御年神等詞
A prayer honoring Ōtoshi, Mitoshi, Wakatoshi, Asuha, Hahiki and kami guarding the grounds of the home.
English meaning included - Homage to the hearth kami: Hirata edition拝竈神等詞
A prayer to Homusubi and the two Okitsu kami, speaking of receiving fire each day and of purification.
English meaning included - Homage to the water-place kami拝水屋神等詞
A prayer naming Mizuhanome, Mii and Naruikazuchi and speaking of receiving water each day and of purification.
English meaning included - Homage to the privy guardians拝守厠神詞
A prayer to kami guarding the privy, asking that faults be reconsidered and for protection through day and night.
English meaning included - Homage at the ancestral sanctuary拝先祖霊屋詞
A prayer to the spirits of ancestors and relatives, asking for the home’s protection, descendants’ well-being and the continuation of remembrance.
English meaning included