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"vr.tr.shinto-shrine", "name": "Shinto shrine", "version": "0.2.0-wave.2", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q845945/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.shinto-shrine", "name": "Shinto shrine", "purpose": "Let an agent describe Shinto shrines and their features with attribution, explain etiquette for visitors, identify specific shrines and networks with sources, and describe their history and organisation.", "definition": "A place of worship in Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan, housing one or more kami in a main sanctuary, with gates, purification basins, worship halls and auxiliary shrines, ranging from great national shrines to small roadside and household shrines, organised in networks such as Ebisu or Mishima shrines and administered by priests and shrine associations; shrines host festivals, rites and seasonal visits.", "what_it_is_for": "Shinto places of worship.", "affordances": [ "describe shrine features and functions", "explain visitor etiquette", "identify specific shrines and networks", "describe history and organisation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Shinto worship", "Enshrined kami", "Torii and purification", "Festival centre" ], "appearance": "Wooden buildings with torii gates, often in groves, with distinctive roofs and ropes.", "visual_identification": [ "Torii gate and sanctuary for kami", "Shinto rites and festivals", "Buddhist temples have different architecture and function" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "great and imperial shrines", "network shrines such as Inari, Ebisu and Mishima shrines", "auxiliary and subsidiary shrines", "memorial shrines to historical figures", "small, roadside and household shrines" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "religious organization", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "sanctuary", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "religious text", "why": "Shinto texts and norito" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "parade", "why": "shrine festival processions" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Japanese religious corporation law", "Cultural property protection", "Shrine association regulations" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Disrespectful visitor behaviour", "Confusing shrines and temples", "Partisan presentation of politically contested shrines" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "visit", "name": "Visit", "description": "Visiting a shrine.", "rationale": "Etiquette.", "layers": [ { "id": "etiquette", "name": "Etiquette", "description": "How to visit.", "findings": [ { "id": "etiquette-finding", "name": "Etiquette", "description": "Etiquette.", "questions": [ { "text": "What etiquette applies at a Shinto shrine, from passing the torii and purification to offering and bowing, as described by shrine authorities?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which behaviours are discouraged?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specific", "name": "Specific", "description": "A specific shrine.", "findings": [ { "id": "specific-finding", "name": "Specific", "description": "Specific shrine.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is this shrine, which kami does it enshrine, and what is its history, according to the shrine and reliable sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "Shrines and Shinto.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "features", "name": "Features", "description": "Shrine features.", "findings": [ { "id": "features-finding", "name": "Features", "description": "Features.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the parts of a shrine, such as torii, honden, haiden and auxiliary shrines, and what do they mean in Shinto terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How do shrines differ from Buddhist temples?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "networks", "name": "Networks", "description": "Shrine networks.", "findings": [ { "id": "networks-finding", "name": "Networks", "description": "Networks.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are shrine networks such as Inari, Ebisu or Mishima shrines, and how are they organised?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "What are Beppyo shrines?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "practice", "name": "Practice", "description": "Rites and festivals.", "rationale": "Life.", "layers": [ { "id": "festivals", "name": "Festivals", "description": "Festivals and rites.", "findings": [ { "id": "festivals-finding", "name": "Festivals", "description": "Festivals.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which festivals and rites are held at this shrine, and when?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How can visitors participate respectfully?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "life", "name": "Life", "description": "Shrines in daily life.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-finding", "name": "Life", "description": "Daily life.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do shrines feature in life events, New Year visits and community, as described by practitioners?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "What are amulets and votive tablets?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History and organisation.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History of shrines.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did shrines develop, including state Shinto and post-war reorganisation, according to historians?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Where a shrine is politically contested, are positions attributed neutrally?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organisation", "name": "Organisation", "description": "Administration.", "findings": [ { "id": "organisation-finding", "name": "Organisation", "description": "Administration.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are shrines administered and funded, and what is the role of priests and the Association of Shinto Shrines?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How are shrine buildings protected as cultural property?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should each major shrine be a separate entry?", "How should shrine directories be linked?", "How should contested shrines be attributed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Shinto shrine, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe Shinto shrines and their features with attribution, explain etiquette for visitors, identify specific shrines and networks with sources, and describe their history and organisation.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: hōanden, setsumatsusha, Beppyo Shrine, Ebisu shrine, Mishima shrine, Nogi shrine, Shizuri Shrine (worship), moto-Ise, Hachiman shrine, Hachiōji shrine, Yakumo shrine, Junisho Shrine.", "104 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 47 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Shinto shrine, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "hōanden", "setsumatsusha", "Beppyo Shrine", "Ebisu shrine", "Mishima shrine", "Nogi shrine", "Shizuri Shrine (worship)", "moto-Ise", "Hachiman shrine", "Hachiōji shrine", "Yakumo shrine", "Junisho Shrine" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 47 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 104 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Shinto shrine from another, and a Shinto shrine from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Shinto shrine sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Shinto shrine from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Shinto shrine passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Shinto shrine between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Shinto shrine, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Shinto shrine is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Shinto shrine.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Shinto shrine and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Shinto shrine, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Shinto shrine and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Shinto shrine sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What Shinto shrine is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does Shinto shrine take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of Shinto shrine, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in Shinto shrine and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of Shinto shrine may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Shinto shrine have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Shinto shrine came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Shinto shrine and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Shinto shrine is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Shinto shrine, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Shinto shrine, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Shinto shrine is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }