shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
shoku (post, employment, work)
shinshoku (shintô priest)

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❖ Workers involved in the ritual and maintenance of shrines
❖ All those who serve the kami
❖ General term for a shintô priest or those men acting as tôya at a matsuri
❖ Also called shanin, shake, shashi, shikan

sha (shrine)
nin (person)
shanin (shrine priest)

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sha (shrine)
ke (house, home)
shake (family of hereditary shintô priests serving a shrine)

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sha (shrine)
shi (official, administrator)
shashi (shrine priest)

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shi (samll shrine)
kan (bureaucrat)
shikan (priest at a small village or hamlet shrine)

dan (male)
shi (child)
danshi (young man)
shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
shoku (post, employment, work)
shinshoku (shintô priest)

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❖ Male shintô priest or those men acting as tôya at a matsuri

jin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
ja | sha (shrine, office, place)
shi (small shrine)
shoku (post, employment, work)

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❖ Shrine ritualists or priests

gû (shintô shrine)
ji | shi (director, official, administer)

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❖ Chief priest

gon (authority, power, rights)
gû (shintô shrine)
ji | shi (director, official, administer)

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❖ Provisional / assistant chief priest

ne (ancestral shrine)
gi (best regards, good)

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❖ Suppliant priest

gon (authority, power, rights)
ne (ancestral shrine)
gi (best regards, good)

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❖ Provisional / assistant suppliant priest

shu (master, lord, chief)
ten (ceremony, code, law, rule)

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❖ Junior priest
❖ Also called kujô

ku (shintô shrine)
jô | shô (manipulate)

hafuri (ritualist) | shuku (celebrate, congratulate)

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❖ shintô priest of lower rank than kannushi and negi

shus | shutsu (exit, leave)
shi (attend, serve, doing)

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❖ Apprentice or novice priest

jo (woman, female)
shi (child)
joshi (woman, girl)
shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
shoku (post, employment, work)
shinshoku (shintô priest)

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❖ Female shintô priest or those women acting as tôya at a matsuri

kan (kami)
nushi (chief, master)
kannushi (shintô priest)

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❖ The person responsible for the maintenance of a shintô shrine, as well as for leading worship
❖ Shrine keeper | guardian | chief ritualist

tô (head)
nin (person)

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❖ Lay priest at a shrine or matsuri

tô (head)
ya (house, roof, dealer)

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tô (this - business organisation or place)
ya (house, roof, dealer)

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❖ Term for those help to organize and run a matsuri
❖ Term for those performing the functions of a shintô priest at a matsuri