Landlord deity
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They are low level deities that are considered below Sheshen and City Gods.
When people move into a new location they will ask the landlord deity for permission to move there.
Houtu is the overlord of all the Tudigongs ("Lord of Local Land"), Sheji ("the State"), Shan Shen ("God of Mountains"), City Gods ("God of Local City"), and landlord gods worldwide.
In China
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The Landlord God (Template:Zh) is a deity worshipped in Chinese folk beliefs who is analogous but is not to be confused with Tudigong.
The tablet for the Landlord God is typically inscribed with two rows:
On the left: (in Singapore and Malaysia) "The Landlord Wealth God of the Overseas Tang People" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) or (in Hong Kong and Chinese diaspora elsewhere) "The Landlord Wealth God from Front to Back" (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
On the right: The Dragon God of the Five Directions and Five Lands (Script error: No such module "Lang".; fengshui).
The names are accompanied by a side couplet of various wordings that praise the virtues of the Landlord God. It is believed that the Landlord God has powers to help gather wealth, and the position of the tablet must be placed properly according to the laws of fengshui.[1]
In Chinese, spirit houses are called Script error: No such module "Lang". or Tudigong House, representing a link between the concept and the concept of an Earth Temple dedicated to a landlord deity or a Tudigong.
In Taiwan
Worship of Tē-ki-tsú (Template:Zhi) is especially common in Taiwanese folk beliefs. Many institutions such as government agencies and companies will honor a Tē-ki-tsú when moving into a new building.
Household altars to Tē-ki-tsú are very common.[2]
Such deities are ambiguous in their nature sometimes ghosts and sometimes deities. Sometimes considered the souls of former occupants[3] Sometimes rituals for such deities is seen as moving the building from the yin world to the yang world[3] (see yin miao for more information on Taiwanese beliefs on the yin world).
Such deities may be linked to Goryō or people who died without relatives.
Alternatively the tradition may originate with Taiwanese indigenous peoples and their practice of indoor burial, or burying people inside buildings.
In Japan
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Ōkuninushi is sometimes considered a Jinushigami of Japan as a whole.
Hokora are often created for Jinushigami,[9] natural objects like trees are also often seen to be yorishiro or shintai for them.[9]
The goal is to convince the cthonic deities of the ground to allow occupation.[9]
Shinra Myōjin is considered such a deity and to have originated in Korea.[10]
In Korea
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In Vietnam
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Pop culture
In the manga series Kamisama Kiss by Julietta Suzuki, the heroine Nanami Momozono becomes the tochigami of a derelict shrine.
See also
References
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