shintai

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 神体(しんたい) (shintai).

Noun

shintai (plural shintai)

  1. (Shinto) A physical object (either natural or man-made) worshipped at or near Shinto shrines as a repository for spirits or kami.
    • 2021, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 18, in The Night Parade of 100 Demons (Legend of the Five Rings), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Aconyte Books, →ISBN, page 211:
      But Ryōtora had definitely moved a shintai during the makeshift festival – and it must have been Saiun-nushi’s, because Sekken couldn’t imagine the shugenja could call a kami into a foreign vessel without noticing.

Further reading

Japanese

Romanization

shintai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of しんたい
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