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Fushimi Inari-taisha (Japanese: 伏見稲荷大社) is the head shrine of the kami Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.The shrine sits at the base of a mountain, also named Inari, which is 233 metres (764 ft) above sea level, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines which span 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) and take approximately 2 hours to walk up. [1]
Myojin Taisha: ichinomiya of Higo Province [12] Takeiwatatsu-no-Mikoto Atsuta Jingu [16] Atsuta-ku, Nagoya: Myojin Taisha Atsuta no Ōkami. Amaterasu. Susanoo. Yamatotakeru. Miyazu-hime. Takeinadane Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha [8] [17] Fujinomiya, Shizuoka [18] Myojin Taisha: ichinomiya of Suruga Province, [7] Konohanasakuya-hime: Gassan ...
The Shrine Parishioner Registration act (氏子調, Ujiko shirabe) was a law in Japan that forcibly registered people in Shinto Shrines. [1] [2]It was implemented by the Meiji government from 1871 (Meiji 4) to 1873.
Taisha is a term used to refer to a rank of Shinto shrines. A taisha ( 大社 ) (the characters are also read ōyashiro ) is literally a "great shrine" [ 1 ] that was classified as such under the old system of shrine ranking, the shakaku ( 社格 ) , abolished in 1946.
The Twenty-Two Shrines (二十二社, Nijūni-sha) of Japan is one ranking system for Shinto shrines.The system was established during the Heian period and formed part of the government's systematization of Shinto during the emergence of a general anti-Chinese sentiment and the suppression of the Taoist religion. [1]
The Takekoma Inari Shrine was established in 842 AD, reputedly by Ono no Takamura, the kokushi of Ōshū Province, [3] as a branch of the famous Fushimi Inari Shrine south of Kyoto. The shrine is mentioned by the Heian period poet Nōin during the reign of Emperor Go-Reizei (1045-1068) and during the Sengoku period was awarded an estate by ...
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Fushimi Inari Taisha's honden. While superficially completely different, the kasuga-zukuri actually shares an ancestry with the most popular style in Japan, the nagare-zukuri. [1] The two for example share pillars set over a double-cross-shaped foundation and a roof which extends over the main entrance, covering a veranda.