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Shakutai Jinja
The original shrine of Kagoshima Jingu. You take a pebble home, and return twice as many after a safe birth.
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Kiyomizu Magaibutsu
Hundreds of five-ringed pagodas and Sanskrit characters are carved into the cliff along the Manose river.
Minamikyushu
Toyotamahime Jinja
Known for the waterwheel karakuri offered at Rokugatsudo, a nationally selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
KagoshimaShrines & TemplesMinamikyushu
Kamafuta Jinja
Worshippers walk the approach with a pot lid balanced on their heads. A faith for fortune in war and in contests.
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Tokumitsu Jinja
It enshrines Maeda Riemon, who spread the sweet potato through Japan.
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Yaku Jinja
Read as Yaku Jinja. The starting point for the mountain pilgrimages of Yakushima.
Minamitane
Homan Jinja
A rite that guards and hands on red rice, keeping an old form of Japanese rice growing.
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Sefa-utaki
The centre of belief in Okinawa is neither shrine nor temple but the utaki: a place with no building, where a forest or a rock itself is worshipped. The same form survives on the mainland at Omiwa Jinja and Munakata Taisha, but in Okinawa it has continued as the mainstream. Through the triangular gap where two great rocks lean together, Kudakajima can be seen.
OkinawaShrines & TemplesNaha
Naminouegu
It stands on a cliff, so that worship faces out towards the paradise held to lie beyond the sea.
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Sonohyan-utaki Ishimon
A stone gate beside Shuri Castle, and an Important Cultural Property. Here the king prayed for safety when leaving the castle. Beyond the gate is an utaki, and the gate itself is for worshipping through.
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Kudakajima
The island where the gods who created Ryukyu are said to have come down. It lies in view from Sefa Utaki, and the whole island is held to be sacred.
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Shirumichu
The cave where the ancestors of Ryukyu are said to have lived. A faith for conceiving a child.
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Harimizu Utaki
The site of the creation myth of Miyakojima, and held to be the most important utaki on the island.
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