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A building at Ise Shrine Shinmei-zukuri ( 神明造 ) is an ancient Japanese architectural style typical of Ise Grand Shrine 's honden , the holiest of Shinto shrines . [ 1 ] It is most common in Mie Prefecture .
Before the forced separation of Shinto and Buddhism (Shinbutsu bunri), it was not uncommon for a Buddhist temple to be built inside or next to a shrine or to the contrary for a shrine to include Buddhist subtemples (Shinbutsu shūgō). If a shrine was also a Buddhist temple, it was called a jingu-ji.
In Japan, a chinjusha (鎮守社•鎮社, or tutelary shrine) is a Shinto shrine which enshrines a tutelary kami (鎮守神, chinjugami); that is, a patron spirit that protects a given area, village, building or a Buddhist temple. [1] [2] [3] The Imperial Palace has its own tutelary shrine dedicated to the 21 guardian gods of Ise Shrine.
Before the Meiji Restoration it was common for a Buddhist temple to be built inside or next to a shrine, or vice versa. [61] If a shrine housed a Buddhist temple, it was called a jingūji (神宮寺). Analogously, temples all over Japan adopted tutelary kami (鎮守/鎮主, chinju) and built temple shrines (寺社, jisha) to house them. [62]
Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社, Itsukushima-jinja) is a Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its "floating" torii. [1] It is in the city of Hatsukaichi , in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan , accessible from the mainland by ferry at Miyajimaguchi Station .
Japanese Buddhist architecture is the architecture of Buddhist temples in Japan, consisting of locally developed variants of architectural styles born in China. [1] After Buddhism arrived from the continent via the Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 6th century, an effort was initially made to reproduce the original buildings as faithfully as possible, but gradually local versions of continental ...
A koil may have multiple gopurams, typically constructed into multiple walls in tiers around the main shrine. The temple's walls are typically square with the outer most wall having gopuras. The sanctum sanctorum and its towering roof (the central deity's shrine) are also called the vimanam. [158]
Jingū-ji – A temple whose existence is supposed to help the soul of the kami the shrine next to it enshrines. [1] Jinja* – The most general name for a shrine. Jinja-bukkaku – Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, especially a combined shrine/temple complex.