ka (house, home)
fû (style, manner)

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❖ (family traditions)
❖ Family is the foundation for preserving traditions passed from one generation to the next

so (ancestor, pioneer, founder)
sen (before, ahead, previous, future, precedence)
sosen (ancestor) sû (adore, respect, revere, worship)
hai (worship, adore, pray to)
sôhai (worship, adoration, admiration, cult)

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❖ Ancestral reverence or worship

butsu (Buddha)
dan (podium, stage, rostrum)

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❖ (houshold buddhist alter)
❖ With the exception of an immediate family member, objects related to hotoke are not normally kept on the kamidana, but are instead kept on a butsudan. Any rituals for the dead are performed before the butsudan.
❖ (See obon, higan)

(enlightened person, Buddha, the dead or spirits of the dead)

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❖ Buddhist term
❖ Used to refer to the spirits of the ancestors
❖ Those who do not become hotoke, become gaki or "hungry spirits"

rei (salute, bow, ceremony, thanks)
hô (method, law, rule, principle, model, system)

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❖ Etiquette, courtesy, manners
❖ Showing proper respect
❖ See reihô

so (founder, ancestor)
jin (kami)

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❖ Ancestral Kami
❖ Usually the clan founder
❖ Although it can refer to the known ancestors collectively
❖ Also called oyagami

oya (parent, relative)
gami (kami)

so (ancestor, pioneer, founder)
rei (spirits, soul)
sorei (ancestral spirit, collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities,ancestor deified as a kami)

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❖ Ancestor(s) deified as kami, spirit of a kami
❖ Also called fuso, sosô

fu (father)
so (ancestor, pioneer, founder)

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so (ancestor, pioneer, founder)
sô (origin)

so (ancestor, pioneer, founder)
rei (spirits, soul)
den (hall, mansion, palace, temple)
soreiden (ancestor spirit temple)

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❖ Ancestor shrine

so (ancestor, founder)
rei (spirits, soul)
sorei (ancestral spirit, collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities,ancestor deified as a kami)
hai (worship, adore, pray to)
shi (words, poetry)
haishi (reverent words, prayer)
sorei haishi (ancestor prayer)

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❖ (See sorei haishi)

so (ancestor, pioneer, founder)
sen (before, ahead, previous, future, precedence)

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❖ (ancestor)

so (ancestor, pioneer, founder)
sen (before, ahead, previous, future, precedence)
no (possessive particle)
rei (spirits, soul)

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❖ (ancestral spirits)

so (ancestor, pioneer, founder)
sen (before, ahead, previous, future, precedence)
no (possessive particle)
rei (spirits, soul)
wo (direct object particle)
matsur.ru (to: perform ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ (to perform religious rituals for the departed souls of one's ancestors)