"Kami-gate'. A gate, often an impressive roofed construction built in the style of the shrine, which allows the approaching visitor to pass through the shrine's encircling walls or fences and can be closed at night. There are several types or designations of shin-mon. Ro-mon can be applied to any category but sometimes refers to a gate formerly reserved for the imperial messenger to the shrine. So-mon usually means the gate through the second tamagaki but may also mean outer gates. The names yotsu-ashi-mon 'four-legged gate' and yatsu-ashi-mon 'eight-legged gate' indicate the number of pillars supporting the central pillars from which these types of gate are hung. Kara-mon means a gate of multi-gabled Chinese style from the Kamakura period and zuijin-mon is a gate which either enshrines the shrine's guardians or is flanked by their statues. The guardians used often to be Buddhist figures, and many were destroyed in the wake of the shinbutsu bunri decrees of 1868. Shrine gates were a continental, Buddhist-influenced development of primitive shrine architecture. Especially with the spread of ryobu shinto it became common to build two-storey portals instead of simple torii Examples of classic Buddhist-style gates are the Yomei-mon at the Nikko Toshogu and the gates of the Gion, Kamo and Hakozaki shrines. Gates such as those at the Meiji and Yasukuni shrines constructed since the separation of Buddhas and kami in 1868 are largely of unpainted wood with a thatched, tiled or copper roof in a nineteenth century 'pure Shinto" style, though the Sugo-isobe jinja in Ishikawa has a gate built in 1875 in stone and ironwork in a unique three-storied semi-European fashion

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kami ['kɑ:mɪ] n

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господин; бог (Только в синтоизме (японская религия), вряд ли многие вообще поймут слово в английском языке. См https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kami NL1995); божество; повелитель (титулование правителя)

relig.

ками (In the Shinto and other indigenous religions of Japan, deity, or sacred power)

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Kami ['kɑ:mɪ] n

relig.

Kami. A term best left untranslated. In Japanese it usually qualifies a name or object rather than standing alone, indicating that the object or entity has kami-quality. Kami may refer to the divine, sacred, spiritual and numinous quality or energy of places and things, deities of imperial and local mythology, spirits of nature and place, divinized heroes, ancestors, rulers and statesmen. Virtually any object, place or creature may embody or possess the quality or characteristic of kami, but it may be helpful to think of kami as first and foremost a quality of a physical place, usually a shrine, or in pre-Meiji times either a shrine or a Buddhist temple and often both together. Either the place itself is kami or a particular named mythological kami (perhaps in the form of its "divided spirit' bunrei) is enshrined in such-and-such a place. Hence shrines tend to be named after the place— Iwashimizu Hachiman, Kanda jinja Ise, (not Amaterasu) Jingu, etc., though there are modern exceptions such as the Meiji jingu Numerous interesting etymologies have been suggested for the term kami, but its meaning lies in its use within the different periods and dimensions of Japanese religion. Although Shinto purists like to reserve the term kami for Shinto (rather than Buddhist) use, most ordinary Japanese make no clear conceptual distinction between kami and Buddhist divinities, though practices surrounding kami and Buddhas may vary according to custom. This accommodating attitude is a legacy of the thorough integration of the notion of kami into the Buddhist world-view which predominated in Japanese religion before the reforms of the Meiji period and has been to some extent revived since 1945, often through the new religions. This is despite the 'separation of kami and Buddhas' (shinbutsu bunri) of 1868, when deities enshrined both as Buddhist divinities and as kami of a certain location (see Honji-suijaku) had to be re-labelled as either Buddha/ bosatsu or kami. In understanding Japanese religion, to think of kami as constituting a separate category of "Shinto" divine beings leads only to confusion. The "shin" of "Shinto" is written with the same Chinese character as kami. See Shinto A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Brian Bocking)

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kami
gen.	господин; бог; божество; повелитель


gate
gen.	ворота; калитка; вход; выход; застава; горный проход


impressive
gen.	производящий глубокое впечатление


built in the style of
gen.	построенный в стиле


the
slang	как знак превосходства качества


TO
bank.	телеграфное платёжное поручение


fences
gen.	притон для укрытия краденого


several
gen.	некоторое число или количество


ros
winemak.	вино из винограда красных сортов, прошедшее ферментацию без кожуры


can be applied to
busin.	может быть применено к


a
gen.	ар


an
gen.	ангола


roofed
tech.	крытый


Approaching
avia.	Подходите к


so
gen.	употребляется вместо предшествующего имени собственного


the gate
slang	некто, брошенный любимой или любимым


ASHI
abbr.	Американский институт гигиены и безопасности труда


central pillar
construct.	центральная колонна


development of
law	осуществление строительства на


common to
Makarov.	свойственный чему-либо


torii
construct.	арка с вогнутой перекладиной


unpainted wood
construct.	неотделанное дерево


built-in
avia.	заложенный при проектировании


ironwork
gen.	металлическая конструкция