Person responsible for maintaining a Shinto shrine as well as for leading worship of a given kami.
1 We are kindly permitted by him to visit the sacred shrines; and a kannushi is detailed to conduct us through the buildings.
2 Next day the hitogata are returned to the kannushi , who, after having recited certain formulae over them, burns them with holy fire.
3 And the common people believed, and still believe, that anybody thus spoken to by the officiating kannushi would be changed into a dog.
4 Each movement is regulated by tradition; and to perform well the functions of a Kannushi , a long disciplinary preparation is necessary.
5 Officiating, the Kannushi seems rather a statue than a man,-animage moved by invisible strings;-and ,likethe gods, he never winks.
6 Kannushi , office of, 138-140.
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