What is kept in an Shrine located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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Heian Shrine The Heian Shrine (平安神宮 , Heian-jingū ) is a Shinto shrine located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The Shrine is ranked as a "Beppyō Jinja" (別表神社 ) (the top rank for shrines) by the Association of Shinto Shrines. It is listed as an important cultural property of Japan.
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Shinto shrine A Shinto shrine (神社 , jinja , archaic: "shinsha", meaning: "place of the god(s)") is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more "kami". Its most important building is used for the safekeeping of sacred objects, and not for worship. Although only one word ("shrine") is used in English, in Japanese Shinto shrines may carry any one of many different, non-equivalent names like "gongen", "-gū", "jinja", "jingū", "mori", "myōjin", "-sha", "taisha", "ubusuna" or "yashiro". (For details, see the section Interpreting shrine names.)
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Uda Mikumari Shrine Uda Mikumari Shrine (宇太水分神社 , Uda Mikumari-jinja ) is a Shinto shrine located in Uda, Nara, Japan. It is dedicated to "mikumari", a female Shinto kami associated with water. The "honden" was built near the end of the Kamakura period, and is listed as a National Treasure of Japan.
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Shiramine Shrine Shiramine Shrine (白峯神宮 , Shiramine jingū ) is a Shinto Shrine in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto
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Tenson Shrine The Tenson Shrine (天孫神社 , Tenson Jinja ) is a Shinto shrine located in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan.
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Takahashi Inari Shrine Takahashi Inari Shrine (高橋稲荷神社, "Takahashi inari jinja") is a Shinto Inari shrine, dedicated to the worship of the kami Inari. It is located in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture. Its main festival is held annually on November 8. It was founded in 1496.
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Kumano Hongū Taisha Kumano Hongū Taisha (熊野本宮大社 ) is a Shinto shrine located in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, deep in the rugged mountains of the Kii Peninsula of Japan. It is included as part of the Kumano Sanzan in the UNESCO World Heritage site "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range". The main deity enshrined is Kumano Gongen (熊野権現). All of the ancient Kumano Kodō Pilgrimage routes lead to this Grand Shrine.
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Kurume Suitengū Kurume Suitengū (久留米水天宮 ) is a Shinto shrine located in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. This shrine is the headquarters for all Suitengū Shrines in Japan.
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Kaisando A kaisandō (開山堂 , kaisan-dō ) , also termed the Founder's Hall, is a temple structure in a Japanese Buddhist monastery complex or other temple where an image (or images) of the founding abbot and other significant teachers and Buddha ancestors are kept, along with a memorial slab (J. ihai). Sometimes also referred to as the Patriarch Hall (J. "soshido") or Reflection Hall (J. "Eishitsu"), this building holds memorial services yearly on the anniversary of the death of the founding abbot.
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Tsubaki Grand Shrine Tsubaki Grand Shrine (椿大神社 , Tsubaki Ōkami Yashiro ) is a Shinto shrine in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Tsubaki is the principal shrine of the deity Sarutahiko-no-Ōkami and one of Japan's oldest shrines. Sarutahiko no Ōkami's wife Ame-no-Uzume is also enshrined at the jinja.
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Sōken-in Sōken-in (総見院 ) is a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. It was founded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1582 as the mortuary temple of Oda Nobunaga. Hideyoshi granted the temple three hundred koku and staged his celebrated Daitoku-ji tea gathering on its grounds in 1585. During the early years of the Meiji period its precinct was demolished and its treasures relocated; Sōken-in was revived in 1926. The seated wooden statue of Oda Nobunaga of 1583, lacquered, with inlaid eyes and an inscription on the base, an Important Cultural Property, was returned in 1961. Nobunaga's funeral and Hideyoshi's foundation of the sub-temple 'with the very best wood available, a remarkable thing to see' was recounted by the Portuguese missionary Luís Fróis in his contemporary "História de Japam".
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Tsukubusuma Shrine Tsukubusuma Shrine (都久夫須麻神社, "Tsukubusuma Jinja") is a Shinto shrine on Chikubu Island in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Its main Hall (本殿 , honden ) is a National Treasure of Japan. The shrine's main festival is held annually on June 15. It is also called Chikubushima Shrine (竹生島神社, "Chikubushima Jinja").
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Katō Shrine Katō Shrine (加藤神社 , Katō-jinja ) is a shrine in Kumamoto Castle, Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan, in which, daimyo or powerful territorial lord Katō Kiyomasa (1562–1611) is enshrined. Alongside Ōki Kaneyoshi and Kin Kan, who made junshi, are enshrined.
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Shimogamo Shrine Shimogamo Shrine (下鴨神社 , Shimogamo-jinja ) in Japanese, is the common name of an important Shinto sanctuary in the Shimogamo district of Kyoto city's Sakyō ward. Its formal name is Kamo-mioya-jinja (賀茂御祖神社). It is one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Japan and is one of the seventeen Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto which have been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The term Kamo-"jinja" in Japanese is a general reference to Shimogamo Shrine and Kamigamo Shrine, the traditionally linked Kamo shrines of Kyoto; Shimogamo is the older of the pair, being believed to be 100 years older than Kamigamo, and dating to the 6th century, centuries before Kyoto became the capital of Japan (794, see Heian-kyō). The Kamo-jinja serve the function of protecting Kyoto from malign influences.
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List of National Treasures of Japan (shrines) The number of Shinto shrines in Japan today has been estimated at more than 150,000. Single structure shrines are the most common. Shrine buildings might also include oratories (in front of main sanctuary), purification halls, offering halls called "heiden" (between "honden" and "haiden"), dance halls, stone or metal lanterns, fences or walls, "torii" and other structures. The term "National Treasure" has been used in Japan to denote cultural properties since 1897.
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Komikado Shrine Komikado Shrine (小御門神社, "Komikado jinja") is a Shinto shrine located in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Its main festival is held annually on April 29. It was founded in 1882, and enshrines the kami of Kazan'in Morokata. It is one of the Fifteen Shrines of the Kenmu Restoration.
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Shintai In Shinto, shintai (神体 , "body of the kami" ) , or go-shintai (御神体 , "sacred body of the kami" ) when the honorific prefix "go-" is used, are physical objects worshipped at or near Shinto shrines as repositories in which spirits or "kami" reside. "Shintai" used in Shrine Shinto (Jinja Shinto) can be also called "mitamashiro" (御霊代 , "spirit replacement" or "substitute" ) .
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Mount Tennōzan Mount Tennōzan (天王山 , Tennōzan ) , or simply Tennōzan, is a mountain in Ōyamazaki, Kyoto, Japan. The name originates from a shrine on the mountain dedicated to Gozutennō.
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Kantō Shrine Kantō Shrine (関東神宮, "Kantō jingu") was a Shinto shrine in Lüshunkou District, Kwantung Leased Territory (today Lüshunkou District, Dalian, Liaoning, China). It was established on June 1, 1938, and closed in 1945 at the end of the Japanese occupation of China. It was formerly an imperial shrine of the first rank (官幣社, "kanpeisha") in the Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines. The kami enshrined here were Emperor Meiji and Amaterasu Omikami.
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Ōchidani Shrine Ōchidani Jinja (樗谿神社 ) is a Shinto shrine in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The Karamon, Honden, and Haiden/Heiden, all of 1650, are Important Cultural Properties. The surrounding area is a public park.
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Honden The honden (本殿 , main hall ) , also called "shinden" (神殿 ) or sometimes "shōden" (昇殿 ) , as in Ise Shrine's case, is the most sacred building at a Shinto shrine, intended purely for the use of the enshrined "kami", usually symbolized by a mirror or sometimes by a statue. The building is normally in the rear of the shrine and closed to the general public. In front of it usually stands the "haiden", or oratory. The "haiden" is often connected to the "honden" by a "heiden", or hall of offerings.
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Kinpu Shrine (Yoshino) Kimpu Shrine (金峯神社 , Kinpu-jinja ) is a Shinto shrine located in Yoshino district, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The "honden", or main hall, is constructed in the "nagare-zukuri" style.