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ShimaneShrines & TemplesAcross Japan the tenth lunar month is called kannazuki, the month without gods, because the gods are away. In Izumo alone it is called kamiarizuki, the month with gods, because this is where they have gone. In that season the nineteen halls in the grounds are said to serve as their lodgings. Worship here is two bows, four claps, one bow, where most shrines take two claps: another sign of how apart this shrine stands.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesIt enshrines Susanoo and Kushinadahime. Known for the paper fortune floated on the Mirror Pond in its grounds.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesIf Ise Jingu guards the daylight of Japan, this shrine is said to guard its night. It is made up of two halls, the Kami-no-miya and the Hishizumi-no-miya.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesThe shrine where Susanoo is said to have finally come to rest. The great cedar in its grounds is held to be 1,300 years old.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesIts main hall is a National Treasure, and is held to be the oldest surviving building in the taisha-zukuri style. It keeps an older form than Izumo Taisha.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesThe head shrine of Ebisu, the deity Kotoshironushi. Custom is to pair a visit here with one to Izumo Taisha.
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ShimaneShrines & TemplesTwenty-four metres tall. In ancient times it is said to have stood 48 metres, and the giant pillars of the older structure have been excavated.
About 13 metres long and over five tonnes. Every few years the parishioners rehang it by hand.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesWhere the gods are welcomed. Held to be the stage of the ceding of the land.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesAn unusual arrangement of three halls standing side by side. Sada Shin Noh is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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ShimaneShrines & TemplesThe forest holding the Mirror Pond. Said to be where Susanoo hid Kushinadahime.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesThe guardian deity of the mine, enshrined at the heart of the Iwami silver mine.
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ShimaneShrines & TemplesIts main hall in the oki-zukuri style is an Important Cultural Property. Oki Island, to which Retired Emperor Gotoba and Emperor Godaigo were exiled.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesIt claims to be one of the five great Inari shrines of Japan. About a thousand torii cover the approach.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesIt claims to be the first shrine of Japan. Where Susanoo composed the poem beginning with the rising clouds of Izumo.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesYou float a paper with a coin on it: the sooner it sinks, the sooner your match will come.
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ShimaneShrines & TemplesIt claims to be the shrine where fire was first made in Japan. The rite of handing the fire drill to Izumo Taisha continues.
ShimaneShrines & TemplesThe soja of Izumo Province, close to the site of the provincial government.