Sakaki

Sakaki (Cleyera japonica) is a tree that people believe is sacred in Shinto

It is used in offerings like Masakaki『出雲大社教布教師養成講習会』発行出雲大社教教務本庁平成元年9月全427頁中75頁 and Tamagushi.

 References 

 Sources 

 Aston, William George, tr. 1896. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Kegan Paul. 1972 Tuttle reprint.
 Carr, Michael. 1995. "Sacred Twig and Tree: Tamagushi and Sakaki in Japanese-English Dictionaries", The Review of Liberal Arts 小樽商科大学人文研究 89:1–36.
 Chamberlain, Basil H., tr. 1919. The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters. 1981 Tuttle reprint.
 Min, Tianlu and Bruce Bartholomew, 2015, Cleyera japonica, Missouri Botanical Garden and Harvard University Herbaria.
 Seidensticker, Edward G., tr. 1976. The Tale of Genji. Knopf.
 Shogakukan, 1988, Kokugo Dai Jiten 国語大辞典, rev. ed., Shogakukan.

Category:Shinto religious objects
Category:Trees