anointment

Japanese: anointment
anointment

…In the Meiji period, the oil pressing industry using rapeseed and cottonseed gradually declined due to the import of oil from overseas. Oil seller, oil cake, and oil wholesaler [Yagi Tetsuhiro]
[Oil and Religious Rites]
The cleansing power of oil, due to its mystical effects, has been combined with various rituals and magic by peoples around the world since ancient times, and has developed into the anointment, which symbolizes the idea of ​​sanctification. For example, in Christianity (Catholicism, Greek Orthodox Church, Coptic Church), the anointing of brides, grooms, pregnant women, and newborns, as well as the anointing of warriors, the sick, and the dead, are all the result of the belief that the remarkable magical effects of oil were an essential medium for rituals.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "anointment" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…明治期に入って海外よりの石油の輸入により,ナタネ・綿実をもってする絞油業はしだいに衰退に向かった。油売油かす油問屋【八木 哲浩】
[油と宗教儀礼]
 油のもつ清浄作用は,その神秘的な効果のゆえに,世界各地の民族によって古くからさまざまな儀礼や呪術と結合し,聖別の観念を象徴する〈塗(注)油anointment〉として発展してきた。たとえば,キリスト教(カトリック,ギリシア正教,コプト教)における花嫁,花婿,妊産婦,新生児に対する塗油,そのほか戦士や病者や死者への塗油など,いずれも油のもついちじるしい呪術的効果が,儀礼にとって不可欠の媒体と信じられた結果である。…

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