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‖ kami|ˈkaːmi|
[Japanese, = ‘superior, lord’.]
1. A title given by the Japanese to daimios and governors, = ‘lord’. Also kami-dana = god-shelf s.v. god n. 16 a.
1616R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 131 Micarna Camme Samme, the Emperours sonns sonne. 1663R. Manley tr. Caron & Schouten's True Descr. Kingdoms Japan & Siam 115 Owarny Cammy Samma, the old Emperors Brother. 1876[see god-shelf]. 1904L. Hearn Japan: Attempt at Interpretation viii. 150 The domestic god-shelf—Kamidana. 1931G. B. Sansom Japan i. iii. 46 At one end of the scale the Sun Goddess, that Heaven-Shining-Great-August Deity is a kami, and at the other mud and sand and even vermin are kami. 1965W. Swaan Jap. Lantern iii. 33 Mirrors are sacred objects associated with kami (spirits). 1970J. W. Hall Japan from Prehist. to Mod. Times iv. 32 Often translated as ‘god’, ‘deity’, or ‘spirit’, kami can best be described as localized spiritual forces. 1972Guardian 23 Sept. 10/3 He spends twenty minutes in personal prayer to the ‘kami’ of the shrine, who in this case are the Emperor Meiji, the monarch who presided over the modernisation of Japan in the late nineteenth century, and his consort, Empress Shoken.
2. In the Shinto or native religion of Japan, A divinity, a god (used by Protestant missionaries and their converts as the name of the Supreme Being, God). Also attrib., as kami-religion.
1727Scheuchzer tr. Kæmpfer's Japan I. 206 Superstition at last was carried so far, that the Mikaddo's..are looked upon..as true and living images of their Kami's or Gods, as Kami's themselves. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. xvii. II. 317 The Japanese..have..kept up..the religion of their former barbarism. This is the Kami-religion, Spirit-religion. 1886Huxley in 19th Cent. XIX. 494 The state-theology of China and the Kami-theology of Japan. note, ‘Kami’ is used in the sense of Elohim, but is also, like our word ‘Lord’, employed as a title of respect among men. |