"Betto" redirects here. For the surname, see Betto (surname).
Bettō (別当) is a term which originally indicated the head of an institution serving temporarily as the head of another one, but which came to mean also the full-time head of some institution.[1][2] The Kamakura periodsamuraiWada Yoshimori, for example, was the first bettō of the shogunate's Samurai-dokoro.
A bettō was a monk who performed Buddhist rites at shrines and jingūji (shrines part of a temple) before the shinbutsu bunri, the Meiji period law that forbade the mixing of Shinto and Buddhism.[2] A shrine had various bettō, from the seibettō (head monk) to the shūri bettō (monk in charge of repairs). Those not associated with religious duties were called zoku bettō. Among the shrines that appointed bettō are Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū, Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, and Hakone Jinja.[2] They were particularly common at Hachiman and gongen shrines, and their mandate lasted three or six years.[2]
Encyclopedia of Shinto, Bettō, retrieved on October 29, 2008
Iwanami Kōjien (広辞苑) Japanese dictionary 5th Edition (2000), CD version
January 05, 2024
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