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Karakama Jinja
You worship by squeezing through a cleft in the rock 45 centimetres wide. A deity of ironworking.
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Kanbara Jinja
A bronze mirror inscribed with the year Jingchu 3 was excavated from a burial mound here.
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Kibitsu Jinja
Its main hall and worship hall are National Treasures. What makes it famous is the corridor, about 360 metres of it, running along the ridge. A roofed walkway that undulates downhill with the lie of the land. That is architecture fitted to a site, not a design meant to be looked at.
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Kibitsuhiko Jinja
It carries the legend of the subduing of Ura. That myth is held to be the original of the Momotaro tale.
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Saijo Inari
Even after the separation of Shinto and Buddhism it did not become a shrine, but kept enshrining Inari as a temple: a rare case. Its formal name is Myokyoji.
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Bicchu Kokubunji
Its five-storey pagoda stands in the farmland of the Kibiji. One of the defining views of Okayama.
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Yuga Jinja Hongu
In the Edo period it became customary to pair a visit here with one to Kotohiragu in Sanuki. It claims to be the head temple for warding off misfortune.
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Achi Jinja
It stands on Tsurugatayama, looking down on the Kurashiki Bikan district. A shrine tied to immigrants from the continent.
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Nakayama Jinja
First shrine of Mimasaka Province, with a main hall in its own nakayama-zukuri style.
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Achi no Fuji
An akebono wisteria over 300 years old. A prefectural Natural Monument.
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Karako Odori
A dance said to derive from the Korean envoys is dedicated at the Ekijin shrine.
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Kumayama Iseki
A three-tiered stone structure. Called a pagoda by some and an altar by others, its purpose is still unsettled.
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Tokumori Jinja
The tutelary shrine of the Tsuyama castle town. Its portable shrine is one of the three great mikoshi of Japan.
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