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Nunakuma Jinja
Its Noh stage is a demountable one tied to Hideyoshi, and an Important Cultural Property. The tutelary shrine of a port where ships waited for the tide.
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Hiroshima Toshogu
The atomic bomb destroyed its main hall, but the karamon gate and the wing corridors survived.
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Kusado Inari Jinja
A kakezukuri hall thrust out over the Ashida river. Its new year crowds are among the largest in the prefecture.
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Abuto Kannon
A vermilion Kannon hall thrust out from a cliff. It draws prayers for safe birth and for raising children.
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Motonosumi Jinja
One hundred and twenty-three torii run about 100 metres out towards the sea. A comparatively new shrine, built after a white fox appeared in the dream of a local fisherman. The torii went on being dedicated over more than a decade. The same structure as the thousand torii at Fushimi Inari or the lanterns at Kasuga Taisha, still working in postwar Japan.
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Hofu Tenmangu
Held to be the earliest founded of the Tenmangu shrines to Sugawara no Michizane, and counted with Kitano and Dazaifu among the three great Tenjin shrines of Japan.
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Akama Jingu
It enshrines Emperor Antoku, who drowned at Dannoura. Known for its red and white Suitenmon gate, which recalls the palace of the dragon king.
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Sumiyoshi Jinja
Its main hall is a National Treasure. With Osaka and Hakata it is counted among the three great Sumiyoshi shrines. Its kukensha nagare-zukuri form is unusual.
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Shoin Jinja
It enshrines Yoshida Shoin. The Shoka Sonjuku school in its grounds is a component of the World Cultural Heritage Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution.
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Rurikoji Gojunoto
One of the three finest pagodas of Japan, and held to be the summit of Ouchi culture.