![]() ![]() This work listed all of the 2,861 Shinto shrines existing at the time, and the 3,131 official-recognized and enshrined kami. In 927 CE, the Engi-shiki ( 延喜式, literally: "Procedures of the Engi Era") was promulgated. Mikoshi, the palanquins which are carried on poles during festivals ( matsuri), also enshrine kami and are therefore considered shrines. Large shrines sometimes have on their precincts miniature shrines, sessha ( 摂社) or massha ( 末社). Miniature shrines ( hokora) can occasionally be found on roadsides. There may be a haiden ( 拝殿, meaning: "hall of worship") and other structures as well.Īlthough 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. The honden may be absent in cases where a shrine stands on or near a sacred mountain, tree, or other object which can be worshipped directly or in cases where a shrine possesses either an altar-like structure, called a himorogi, or an object believed to be capable of attracting spirits, called a yorishiro, which can also serve as direct bonds to a kami. The honden (本殿, meaning: "main hall") is where a shrine's patron kami is/are enshrined. 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, the deities of the Shinto religion. ![]()
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