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MiyagiShrines & TemplesIts deity is said to have taught people how to make salt. Every July a rite is still held to draw salt from seawater by the ancient method. Salt is the precondition for preserved food, so faith and the origin of the local diet sit in the same place.
MiyagiShrines & TemplesThe hall Date Masamune had built is a National Treasure, and is held to be the oldest surviving building in the black-lacquer-and-colour Momoyama style.
MiyagiShrines & TemplesMiyagiShrines & TemplesIt stands in the same grounds as Shiogama Jinja, its vermilion and black lacquered halls side by side.
MiyagiShrines & TemplesThe Yakushido rebuilt by Date Masamune still stands, carrying the line of the provincial temples into northern Japan.
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MiyagiShrines & TemplesEvery July, salt is drawn from seawater by the ancient method. A rite where faith and the origin of food overlap.
MiyagiShrines & TemplesA Toshogu built by Date Tadamune. The main hall and karamon gate are Important Cultural Properties.
One of the funerary temples of the Date family, known for its three-storey pagoda and its garden.
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MiyagiShrines & TemplesA culture of sake and sushi grew up in the town before the gate of Shiogama Jinja.
MiyagiShrines & TemplesIt stands beside Akiu Otaki, one of the three great waterfalls of Japan.
The shrine that records the first welling up of the Naruko hot springs. It sits at the centre of kokeshi doll country.
MiyagiShrines & TemplesIt enshrines a deity in the form of a snake and draws prayers for wealth. Known for peonies and wisteria.
Its inner shrine stands on the summit of Mount Zao. A faith centred on the crater lake.
MiyagiShrines & TemplesSet on Mount Hiyoriyama, looking down on the mouth of the Kitakami river and the sea.
MiyagiShrines & TemplesA Kannon figure a hundred metres tall. Worshippers climb up inside it.
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MiyagiShrines & TemplesIt claims to be one of the three great Fudo halls of Japan. Its population of Japanese dace is a Natural Monument.