Dōsojin
nature_spirit earth Japanese single tradition · 3
The generic name for a type of Shinto guardian or spirit, considered to be the deities of borders and paths. These spirits protect boundaries and travelers along roads.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
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- co occurs with
- Jizō, Izanagi-no-mikoto, Izanami-no-mikoto, Nareko Michigami, Yomotsu-shikome, Izanagi, Izanami, Daidarabotchi, Daikokuten, Daitengu, Sōjōbō, Danzaburou-danuki, Datsue-ba, Keneō, Dodomeki, Dōnotsura
- syncretized with
- Sae no kami
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“The generic name for a type of Shinto guardian or spirit, considered to be the deities of borders and paths.”
#5019 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Ritsu and his cousin Tsukasa are compared to a Dōsojin. In the 2001 animated film Spirited Away by the japanese animator and artist Hayao Miyazaki, the protagonist Chihiro Ogino and her parents as they stop in the forest, a Dōsojin statue appears at the entrance of building who leads to the spirit world”
#9324 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001