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A Shinto priest, known in Japanese as a kannushi (神主, "god master") or shinshoku (神職, meaning "god's employee"), is a person responsible for the maintenance of a Shinto shrine (神社 jinja) as well as for leading worship of a given kami.

Shinto priests wear a jōe / joue, which consists of a garment called kariginu and a peaked cap called tate-eboshi.

Originally, the kannushi were intermediaries between kami and could transmit their will to common humans. A kannushi was a man capable of miracles or a holy man who, because of his practice of purificatory rites, was able to work as a medium for a kami. Later the term evolved to being synonymous with shinshoku, that is, a man who works at a shrine and holds religious ceremonies there.