
thumb|250px|Nikkō Tōshō-gū enshrines [[Tokugawa Ieyasu under the posthumous name of Tōshō Daigongen.]]
thumb|250px|Nikkō Tōshō-gū enshrines [[Tokugawa Ieyasu under the posthumous name of Tōshō Daigongen.]]
A , literally "incarnation", was believed to be the manifestation of a buddha in the form of an indigenous kami, an entity who had come to guide the people to salvation, during the era of shinbutsu-shūgō in premodern Japan. The words and are synonyms for gongen. is the term for belief in the existence of gongen.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).