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Can a man become a miko?
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2009/4/21 23:52
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Hello I've another question about Shinto (I hope it sound enough clear despite my English) Sometimes in the temples I've seen men with light-blue orlight-green hakama. Are they a sort of "miko"? (obviously I don't know if miko is a right term for a male assistant of a priest seeing that miko are usually women) Thanks for the help
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by Anne (guest)
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Man does not becoma a "Miko".
The men with light-blue orlight-green hakama you saw are the lower level "Kannushi" staffs.
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by . (guest)
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miko are different to maiko
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2009/4/22 19:47
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Mika, the miko are "shrine maidens" and work at Shinto shrines doing various duties. No relation at all to maiko, the apprentice geisha.
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by Sira (guest)
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Kannushi and miko
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2009/4/23 22:16
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By the way, sometimes you can see women wearing light-blue hakama (or other colours depending on their rank) in shrines, and just like men, they are also not miko (shrine maidens) but kannnushi (Shinto priests).
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female kannushi
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2009/4/23 22:34
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Years ago I used to teach English to a really nice lady in her 50s who was kannushi of a shrine in Kamakura. I've always wished I could have seen her dressed as a kannushi- she wore ordinary clothes to classes of course!
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by Sira (guest)
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Thanks again!
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2009/5/1 07:54
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Thanks so much for all the replies. the first specially was very useful :)
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by Anne (guest)
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