gongen
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Nikkō Tōshō-gū enshrines [[Tokugawa Ieyasu under the posthumous name of Tōshō Daigongen.]]
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- Subclass of
- kami
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- Commons category
- Gongen
- topic's main category
- Category:Gongen
- worshipped by
- shinbutsu-shūgō
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Gongen of Japan
- ''Gongen-zukuri''
- See also
- Notes
- References
thumb|250px|Nikkō Tōshō-gū enshrines [[Tokugawa Ieyasu under the posthumous name of Tōshō Daigongen.]]
A , literally "incarnation", was believed to be the manifestation of a buddha in the form of an indigenous kami, an entity who had come to guide the people to salvation, during the era of shinbutsu-shūgō in premodern Japan. The words and are synonyms for gongen. is the term for belief in the existence of gongen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gongen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.