霊れい璽じ

noun

spirit tablet; memorial tablet; object representing the spirit of the dead

Shinto term for a physical object, often a tablet, that serves as a vessel for the spirit of a deceased person and is venerated. Compare 御霊代 (みたましろ).

See also: 御霊代

• 神かみ棚だなに先せん祖ぞの霊れい璽じを祀まつる。

  They enshrine the ancestral spirit tablet on the household Shinto altar.

noun

imperial seal; privy seal

Historical term for the seal of the emperor; compare 御璽 (ぎょじ). Rare in modern contexts.

See also: 御璽

• その文ぶん書しょには霊れい璽じが押おされていた。

  The document bore the imperial seal.