Kashima Jingū

Kashima-jingū (鹿島神宮), also known as Kashima-jinja, is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Kashima, Ibaraki on the island of Honshu.

History

Kashima was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of the old Hitachi Province. It serves today as one of the ichinomiya of Ibaraki Prefecture. This place is special to the kami named Takemikazuchi no ookami (武甕槌大神).

In the modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines, Kashima was listed in the middle range of ranked Imperial shrines or Kanpei-chūsha (官幣中社) which included 23 sanctuaries.

References

1 2 Kotodamaya.com, "Kashima Jinja"; retrieved 2012-11-28.
↑ Kashima City, "Kashima Jinju Shrine" Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-11-28.
↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-11-28.
↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 125.

Other websites

Media related to Kashima-jingu at Wikimedia Commons

Kashima Jingu website Archived 2011-09-26 at the Wayback Machine

35°58′08″N 140°37′53″E / 35.96889°N 140.63139°E / 35.96889; 140.63139

[kotodamayama-1] 1 2 Kotodamaya.com, "Kashima Jinja"; retrieved 2012-11-28.

[2] Kashima City, "Kashima Jinju Shrine" Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-11-28.

[3] "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-11-28.

[4] Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 125.