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First, the idea of sakaki is expressed with a melding of boku or ki 木 'tree' and shin or kami 神 'god; divine, sacred' [of Shinto 神道]; comparable to a graphic fusion of the word shinboku 神木 'sacred tree.' Second, the sakaki 榊 ideograph is a kokuji 'national [i.e., Japanese] logograph' rather than a usual kanji 漢字 'Chinese ...
Evergreen trees with pointed branches are often used as tamagushi in Shinto rituals, serving as a substitute for the gods to descend from. The most common type of tamagushi is the sakaki tree, but other species such as hisakaki and ogatama no ki may be used in regions where sakaki does not grow naturally (areas north of the Kanto region).
Tamagushi (玉串, literally "jewel skewer") is a form of Shinto offering made from a sakaki-tree branch decorated with shide strips of washi paper, silk, or cotton. At Japanese weddings , funerals, miyamairi and other ceremonies at Shinto shrines , tamagushi are ritually presented to the kami (spirits or gods) by parishioners, shrine maidens ...
Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 21 species [1] of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia. In the APG III system it is placed in the family Pentaphylacaceae.
Masakaki (Japanese: 真榊) is an object used in Shinto rituals. [1] [2] [3] It is put on both sides of a table where the event takes place. Masakaki is made with branches of a tree called Sakaki. These branches are attached to the top of colorful cloth banners. The banners are in five colors - green, yellow, red, white, and blue. [1] [3]
Now such trees have become divine by association, and no longer simply represent a kami. [1] Shinto altars, called himorogi – typically just square areas demarcated with sakaki (Cleyera japonica) at the corners supporting sacred border ropes (shimenawa) [6] – feature a branch of sakaki erected at the center as a yorishiro. [6]
The three animals, named Vader, Kev, and Amigo, were struck by a semitruck on a road. A tree fell on a fence, leaving an opening for the three faithful equines to escape their pasture, ...
Sakaki (榊, "Sakaki Tree" Cleyera japonica) was one of 10 Kaba-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I. While operating in the Aegean Sea , Sakaki was torpedoed by an Austro-Hungarian U-boat in 1917.