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Learn how shrines and temples differ, then look at the photos
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Ashizuri Misaki
A cape from which monks set sail, believing the Pure Land lay beyond the southern sea.
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Ichijo Jinja
The shrine of the little Kyoto of Tosa, founded by the Ichijo family after they fled the Onin War.
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Shoryuji (Kochi)
The source of the ring name of the yokozuna Asashoryu. He trained his legs on the 170 stone steps.
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Konomineji
You climb a slope so steep it is called the sheer vertical. The mother of Iwasaki Yataro of Mitsubishi came here daily.
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Kujirazuka
A mound to hold memorials for the whales that were taken. An awareness of receiving a life, given form.
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Sugimoto Jinja
The Daikoku market, one of the three great festivals of Tosa, is held here. The home of Tosa washi.
KochiShrines & TemplesOtoyo
Sugi no Osugi
Said to be 3,000 years old. The tree the singer Misora Hibari prayed to for success.
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Fuba Hachimangu
Its main hall is an Important Cultural Property. It preserves a rite in which the gods themselves are married.
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Dazaifu Tenmangu
Built over the grave of Sugawara no Michizane. Demoted from the capital, he died two years later. Disasters followed in Kyoto, and quieting his spirit was where Tenjin belief began. He became the god of learning because he had been a scholar. A faith that started in fear became, over a thousand years, the shrine of examination candidates.
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Munakata Taisha
Okinoshima is a deity in its entirety, and the public may not land there. More than 80,000 dedicated objects have been found on the island, many of them National Treasures. That it was a place for praying for safe passage to the continent survives as objects.