Jingū taima
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Jingū Taima is an ōnusa wrapped in clean Ise washi and issued by the Ise Grand Shrine. They are a form of ofuda. The Association of Shinto Shrines recommends every household have at least three Ofuda
Different types of Jingū Taima (upper row) and other talismans distributed in the Inner Shrine (Naikū) of Ise. From left: Kaikō taima (海幸大麻) (a kind of kifuda for luck in fishing), kenharai (剣祓), kakuharai (角祓), and daikakuharai (大角祓) (a larger version of kakuharai).
The end of the Edo period witnessed the rise of public festivities and protests known as ee ja nai ka triggered by reports of talismans raining from the sky.
Mamori-Harai at the Inner Shrine of Ise Jingu.
Ancient card storage near the entrance to the Imperial Grand Shrine at Ise Grand Shrine
State Shinto
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State Shintō was Imperial Japan's ideological use of the Japanese folk religion and traditions of Shinto. The state exercised control of shrine finances and training regimes for priests to strongly en
Jingū taima
…Since then, it has been wrapped as Goshin, the sacred body of the shrine. In the Meiji period, the system of goji was suspended with the formation of State Shinto and distributed throughout the country from the Jingu-kyo organized by the Ise Jingu from Ise-ko. From the Meiji era to the present, all Jingu taima…
Empire of Japan's 50 sen banknote, featuring Yasukuni Shrine
This 1878 engraving by Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912) visually presents the central tenet of State Shinto (1871–1946). This Shinto variant asserted and promoted belief in the divinity of the Emperor, which arose from a genealogical family tree extending back to the first emperor and to the most important deities of Japanese mythology.
Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur, at their first meeting, at the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, 27 September 1945
A torii gate at Yasukuni shrine