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Historically, the entire of Mount Kirishima is considered part of the shrine grounds. Today, parts of the mountains where festivals take place and the location of the Tenson kōrin is considered part of the shrine grounds. It is dedicated to Konohanasakuya-hime, Hoori, Toyotama-hime, Ugayafukiaezu, Tamayori-bime and Ninigi-no-Mikoto.
The following list encompasses only some, but not all of the Heian period Nijūnisha shrines (Twenty-Two Shrines); and the modern shrines which were established after the Meiji Restoration are not omitted.
Daijingū Temple of Hawaii (ハワイ大神宮) Honolulu (天照皇大神) Amaterasu-Sume-Ōkami [1] (天之御中主神) Amenominakanushi-no-Kami (ジョージ・ワシントン) George Washington [1] [2] (エイブラハム・リンカーン) Abraham Lincoln [1] (カメハメハ1世) King Kamehameha [1] (カラカウア) King Kalakaua [1 ...
In the foreground the shrine-temple's Buddhist structures (not extant), among them a pagoda, a belltower and a niōmon. The shrine (extant) is above. Until the Meiji period (1868–1912), the jingū-ji (神宮寺, shrine temple) were places of worship composed of a Buddhist temple and a Shinto shrine, both dedicated to a local kami. [1]
Meiji under construction in 1920 Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, aerial view of Meiji Jingu, c. 1926. After the emperor's death in 1912, the Japanese Diet passed a resolution to commemorate his role in the Meiji Restoration. An iris garden in an area of Tokyo where Emperor Meiji and Empress Shōken had been known to visit was chosen as the ...
Asakusa Shrine; Atago Shrine; Hanazono Shrine; Hie Shrine; Shibuya Jinja; Kanda Shrine; Kume no Heinai-dō; Meiji Shrine; Namiyoke Inari Shrine; Nezu Shrine; Nogi Shrine
The temple was built on the site of Babri Masjid, a mosque dating to the 16th century that was destroyed by Hindu nationalist mobs in 1992, setting off riots across the country that killed about ...
In the next phase of expansion, the track was extended eastwards, with Kirishima-Jingū opening as the new eastern terminus on 10 July 1930. Subsequently, the Kokuto-West Line was expanded to the east and north, linking up with the Kokuto-East Line at Ōsumi-Ōkawara and other networks so that by the end of 1932, through-traffic had been ...