Chintaku Reifu Shrine in Nara
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 21_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_VI_v2_9.md.
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Chintaku Reifu Shrine in Nara
Section titled “Layer 1: Chintaku Reifu Shrine in Nara”Source file:
21_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_VI_v2_9.md
Japanese: 鎮宅霊符神社
Location: In’yōchō, Nara
Wikimedia Commons maintains a category containing multiple modern photographs of the shrine.
Visual source
Section titled “Visual source”https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chintakureifu-Jinja
Research importance
Section titled “Research importance”The shrine provides a physical Japanese locus connecting:
- Onmyōdō;
- Chintaku Reifushin;
- Nara calendrical specialists;
- household protection.
Future fieldwork checklist
Section titled “Future fieldwork checklist”- enshrined deity identification;
- current amulets;
- festival calendar;
- house-protection petitions;
- iconography;
- relationship to Yoshikawa/Nara onmyōji memory.
v2.9 SOURCE-LAYER CORRECTION
Section titled “v2.9 SOURCE-LAYER CORRECTION”The Chintaku Reifu tradition must now be represented in at least four historical layers:
Layer 1 — Daozang canonical corpus
Section titled “Layer 1 — Daozang canonical corpus”Taishang Mifa Zhenzhai Lingfu: 72 talismans, diagram, monthly descent days, offerings, taboo foods.
Layer 2 — Medieval Japanese transmission
Section titled “Layer 2 — Medieval Japanese transmission”Imported Daoist talismanic material transformed within Japanese religious institutions.
Layer 3 — Early-modern / modern Nara and shrine/Onmyōdō forms
Section titled “Layer 3 — Early-modern / modern Nara and shrine/Onmyōdō forms”Chintaku Reifujin becomes embedded in local calendrical and protective practice.
Layer 4 — 1912 grand syncretic compilation
Section titled “Layer 4 — 1912 grand syncretic compilation”Daoist, Shintō, Buddhist, Confucian, Kōshin and Three-Corpse systems deliberately assembled into a large ritual sourcebook.
No later layer may be silently retrojected into the earlier one.