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Danka system: The terauke, Consequences of the danka system & The appearance of the Gojōmoku
The danka system (檀家制度, danka seido), also known as jidan system (寺檀制度, jidan seido), is a system of voluntary and long-term affiliation between Buddhist temples and households in use in Japan since the Heian period. In it, households (the danka) financially support a Buddhist temple which, in exchange, provides for their spiritual needs. Although its…
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Danka system topic overview
The analysis highlights The terauke, Consequences of the danka system and The appearance of the Gojōmoku as prominent areas in the source structure around Danka system.
Related topics
31
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
41
Extracted relationships
68
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
41
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Consequences of the danka system · 9 topics
The terauke · 9 topics
Overview · 8 topics
The appearance of the Gojōmoku · 5 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Suggested research paths
Each trail groups topics mentioned together in one source paragraph. Follow the links to explore that specific context; the order does not imply a factual sequence.
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Danka system connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Danka system shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Danka system → Anti-Christianity, Buddhism, Christianity, Cultural History, Death, First, Funerary Buddhism, German, Harvard University Asia Center, Heine, Inquisition, Internet, ISBN, Japanese, Japanese Buddhism, JSTOR, Kenneth, Kosei Publishing Company, March, Marcure Another extracted example is Danka system → As, Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhist, Edo, Even, Funerary Buddhism, Hence, Japan, Japanese Buddhism's, Juzo Itami's, The, The Funeral, This, When, World War II. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Danka system
Top relations
related to Literature· 37
Danka system → Anti-Christianity, Buddhism, Christianity, Cultural History, Death, First, Funerary Buddhism, German, Harvard University Asia Center, Heine, Inquisition, Internet, ISBN, Japanese, Japanese Buddhism, JSTOR, Kenneth, Kosei Publishing Company, March, Marcure
related to The advent of "funerary Buddhism"· 16
Danka system → As, Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhist, Edo, Even, Funerary Buddhism, Hence, Japan, Japanese Buddhism's, Juzo Itami's, The, The Funeral, This, When, World War II
related to The terauke· 15
Danka system → Administratively, Although, Buddhist, Christian, Christians, Japanese, Jōdo, Local, Nichiren, Rinzai, Shimabara Rebellion, Shinto, The, Tokugawa, Tokugawa Japan
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Danka system relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 68 structured relationships around Danka system. Examples in this analysis include Danka system → related to Literature → Marcure and Danka system → related to Literature → Kenneth. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
Danka system
related to Literature
Marcure
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Kenneth
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Spring
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
The Danka System
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Monumenta Nipponica
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Tokyo
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Sophia University
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
JSTOR
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Nam-Lin Hur
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Death
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Tokugawa Japan
0.60
section
Danka system
related to Literature
Buddhism
0.60
section
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Danka system bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include System, Temples and Buddhism. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Danka system
System
Temples
Buddhism
Temple
Japan
Households
Religious
Use
Buddhist
Voluntary
Tokugawa
Also
danka system
Tokugawa
System
Japan
Buddhism
Temples
Order
Temple
Period
Households
Religious
Use
Funerary
buddhist
Tokugawa
Households
Temple
System
Voluntary
Become
Made
Part
Edo
Use
Temples
Danka
buddhist temple
Tokugawa
Households
Temple
System
Terauke
Voluntary
Certification
Duty
Issued
Become
Made
Part
consequences of the danka system
Tokugawa
System
Japan
Buddhism
Temples
Order
Temple
Period
Households
Religious
Use
Funerary
edo period
Edo
Period
Voluntary
Meiji
Use
System
Temples
Long
Made
Tokugawa
Confucianism
Funerary
meiji period
Edo
Voluntary
Meiji
Period
Use
Temples
System
Confucianism
Part
Two
Long
Document
tokugawa
Order
Japanese
Buddhism
Became
Death
Part
Priests
Christian
Issued
Use
Terauke
Temple
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Danka system, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Danka system with The terauke. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Min side: 3
Danka system — The terauke· splits 32 ⟂ 10Danka system — Consequences of the danka system· splits 32 ⟂ 10Danka system — Overview· splits 33 ⟂ 9Danka system — The appearance of the Gojōmoku· splits 36 ⟂ 6Danka system — Literature· splits 36 ⟂ 6
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Danka system
Nodes42
Edges41
Triples68
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Danka system to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as The terauke, Consequences of the danka system & The appearance of the Gojōmoku, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
