And here is something else that you will find at most of the famous miya in Izumo--a box of little bamboo sticks, fastened to a post before the doors.
The interior of the sacred chamber is equally rich in lacquered decoration and gilding; and below the miya itself there are strange paintings of weird foxes--foxes wandering in the foreground of a mountain landscape.
The miya or Shinto temple itself is quite small--smaller than most of the temples in the neighbourhood, and dingy, and begrimed with age.
Neither is it burned or cast into pure running water, as all sacred objects of the miya must be when they have ceased to be serviceable.
This miya was built for an atonement; and the people still pray to the spirit of the Kengyo.
And the miya being opened, Naomasu saw within it a great awabi [14] of nine holes--so large that it concealed everything behind it.
But the symbols of Shinto are more numerous, and the structure of its miya larger and loftier.
Waving aside all questions, Ko-Ko urges them off just as the procession heralding the Mikado and Katisha enters the garden to the strains of "Miya sama, miya sama.
Just after leaving the prince's residence we were stopped in the road to let Ninnaji no Miya pass.
Yamashina noMiya proposed the Queen's health, which was responded to enthusiastically by everyone present.
The stage from Kuwana to Miya is by sea, across the head of the bay of Owari.
This was only a private and confidential arrangement with Date, and would only become official after Yamashina no Miya delivered the formal invitation.
The Miya was dressed in the same costume as the other court nobles we had seen, a purple silk robe (kari-ginu) and a small black-lacquered wrinkled hat perched on the top of the head.
I proposed, therefore, to devote the afternoon to visiting Nagoya, of whichMiya is little more than a suburb.
Yamashina no Miya was simultaneously to call on Roches to deliver the apology, and also invite him to Kioto.
At the shrine of Kibitsu no miya in Bittchu there is a mode of divining good and ill-luck from the sound made by a caldron in boiling.
One of the norito splits up Oho-miya no me into five separate deities.
An oracle of Mume no miya promises that if an offering of sand is made help will be given to women in child-birth, and children to those who have none.
Miya mairi, the presentation of the child at the temple when it is a month old.
The next important event in the baby's life is the miya mairi, a ceremony which corresponds roughly with our christening.
Prince Arisugawa-no-miya was appointed commander-in-chief and established his headquarters at Fukuoka.
Yokka-ichi is a small seaport, whence most travellers along the Tokaido take passage to Miya in the steam passenger launches plying between these points.
The salaries of the Ras Miya and Emirs are proportionately higher; and they receive frequent gifts of women and slaves from the Khalifa.
Over every five or six Ras Miya an Emir presides, who is also provided with an assistant.
The corps are subdivided again into sections of one hundred men, over each of which an officer called Ras Miya (head of the hundred), who has several assistants, has command.
The call for a Ras Miya is that of captain; for Emir that of major; and for commander that of colonel.
Owing to this unusually hard service, the Ras Miya and Emirs, under the pretext of illness, frequently go secretly to their houses, and great discontent prevails amongst them.
Miya sama, miya sama, On n'm-ma no maye ni Pira-Pira suru no wa Nan gia na Toko tonyare tonyare na?
Before the household miya are placed great double rice cakes; and the shrine is beautiful with flowers, a tiny shimekazari, and sprays of sakaki.
If several great deities are represented in themiya or upon the kamidana by several ofuda, then a separate lamp is sometimes lighted for each; and if there be a butsuma in the dwelling, its tapers or lamp are lighted at the same time.
There are miya of a hundred varieties and sizes, from the child's toy miya which sells for less than one sen, to the large shrine destined for some rich home, and costing perhaps ten yen or more.
Pure Shinto requires that a miya should be without gilding or ornamentation.
The kamidana or 'God-shelf,' upon which are placed the miya and other sacred objects of Shinto worship, is usually fastened at a height of about six or seven feet above the floor.
After certain Shinto rites had been performed at both temples, the miya was carried back in procession to Rakuzan.
The shelf or the shrine of the ancestors and household dead is placed always at a considerable height in the mitamaya or soreisha (as the Spirit Chamber is sometimes called), just as is the miya of the Kami in the other apartment.
Now formerly upon each annual matsuri, or festival, of Rakuzan-jinja, it was customary to carry the miya of Naomasa-San from the village temple to the castle of Matsue.
Each side of the street leading to the miya was illuminated with a line of paper lanterns bearing holy symbols; and the immense court of the temple had been transformed into a town of booths, and shops, and temporary theatres.
The majority of householdmiya are cheap constructions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miya" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
