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NaganoShrines & TemplesFour shrines make it up: Kamisha Honmiya and Maemiya, Shimosha Akimiya and Harumiya, and some of them have no main hall at all. Once every seven years, at the Onbashira festival, huge trees cut from the mountain are hauled by hand and raised at the four corners of the halls.
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NaganoShrines & TemplesFive shrines in all, including Okusha, Chusha and Hokosha. The avenue of cedars running about 500 metres to Okusha is famous. The name comes from the myth in which the rock thrown from the heavenly cave became Mount Togakushi.
NaganoShrines & TemplesBecause it enshrines four deities, it is called the god who ties wishes together. It faces Nawate-dori.
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NaganoShrines & TemplesIts object of worship is the ground itself, beneath the floor of the main hall. Many written prayers by Takeda Shingen survive here.
NaganoShrines & TemplesOne of the four shrines. It has no main hall, keeping the older form of worshipping the mountain itself.
NaganoShrines & TemplesThe only one of the four with a main hall. Held to be the birthplace of Suwa belief.
NaganoShrines & TemplesThe shrine where the deity resides from August to January. Its bronze guardian lions are said to be the largest in Japan.
NaganoShrines & TemplesThe deity resides here from February to July. It is said to have been built from the same plans as Akimiya.
NaganoShrines & TemplesIt stands at the end of an avenue of cedars some 500 metres long, enshrining the deity who threw the heavenly rock door.
NaganoShrines & TemplesThe land deity, held to be older than Okusha. A god of rain and of toothache.
NaganoShrines & TemplesAn unusual hall that faces north. Visiting it together with Zenkoji is a custom of long standing.
NaganoShrines & TemplesIt stands on the site of Komoro Castle, an ana-jiro that sits lower than the town below it.
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NaganoShrines & TemplesIt worships Mount Ontake in Kiso. The Ontake-ko spread in the Edo period, turning it into a sacred mountain ordinary people could climb.
NaganoShrines & TemplesA stone Buddha seated near Harumiya. Known because Okamoto Taro praised it so highly.
NaganoShrines & TemplesSo beautiful that people turn back to look, which is why it is called the pagoda that makes you look back.
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NaganoShrines & TemplesA sea deity enshrined in the mountains, held to be a trace of the Azumi people who moved inland to Shinshu.
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