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A shrine in Kurayoshi, once the town's tutelary shrine, busy at the New Year.
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A shrine in Kurayoshi, Tottori. Its deity is Wakeikazuchi no Kami, and it is said to have been invited as a divided spirit from Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto. It was formerly the general tutelary shrine of Kurayoshi town, and the Yugao Well remains, named after the feathered-robe legend that a heavenly maiden climbed up to heaven along a bottle gourd vine.
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