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OitaShrines & TemplesThe Hachiman line is held to be the most numerous of all shrine networks in Japan. It enshrines Emperor Ojin, and spread nationwide once the Minamoto took him up as the guardian of the warrior class. Iwashimizu Hachimangu too was divided from here. The main hall is a National Treasure: three halls standing side by side in the hachiman-zukuri style. Worship is two bows, four claps, one bow, the same form as at Izumo Taisha.
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OitaShrines & TemplesA group of stone figures carved directly into the cliff, among the largest in Japan. You climb stone steps said to have been built by an ogre in a single night.
OitaShrines & TemplesFirst shrine of Bungo Province, its deity invited from Usa Jingu. The great camphor in its grounds is a Natural Monument.
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OitaShrines & TemplesThree main halls in the hachiman-zukuri style, all National Treasures. The head shrine of more than 40,000 Hachimangu across Japan.
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OitaShrines & TemplesThe oldest wooden building in Kyushu, and a National Treasure. An Amida hall to stand beside the Phoenix Hall at Byodoin.
OitaShrines & TemplesThe first stone figures in Japan to be designated National Treasures. Sixty-one of them are carved into the cliff.
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OitaShrines & TemplesA group of temples across the Kunisaki peninsula. A distinctive culture fusing Shinto-Buddhist syncretism with mountain asceticism.
OitaShrines & TemplesHeld to be the origin of the saying that three heads together have the wisdom of Monju.
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OitaShrines & TemplesA path of practice that crosses a ridge of rock. The Mumyo bridge spans it.
OitaShrines & TemplesAt the foot of Mount Yufu. It carries a legend of a god who drained the water from a basin that had been a lake.
OitaShrines & TemplesIt guards the sea of the Seki mackerel and Seki horse mackerel. It carries a legend of two diving women who recovered a sword.
OitaShrines & TemplesThe other shrine claiming to be first of Bungo Province. Known for its wisteria.
OitaShrines & TemplesSaid to have been founded by Gyoki. It is held to grant any wish without choosing, and over a hundred thousand come at new year.
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OitaShrines & TemplesHeld to be the ancestral shrine of Usa Jingu. The Misumi pond itself is the deity. Its gate is an Important Cultural Property.