List of Shinto shrines in the United States

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Shrine nameLocationEnshrined deity
Flag of California.svg  California
Shinto Shrine of Shusse Inari in America
(アメリカ出世稲荷神社)
Los Angeles (宇迦之御魂神) Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami
(誉田別命) Homudawake-no-Mikoto
(大床主神) Ōtokonushi-no-kami
(武みかづちの神) Takemikaduchi-no-kami
(経津主神) Futsunushi-no-kami
(水波女神) Mizuhanome-no-kami
Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado
Kami Shrine (Drala Mountain Center) Red Feather Lakes Amaterasu-Ōmikami
(天照大神), Toyouke-Omikami, Sarutahiko-no-Ōkami, Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto
(猿田彦大神・天鈿女命)
Flag of Hawaii.svg  Hawaii
Daijingū Temple of Hawaii
(ハワイ大神宮)
Honolulu (天照皇大神) Amaterasu-Sume-Ōkami [1]
(天之御中主神) Amenominakanushi-no-Kami
(ジョージ・ワシントン) George Washington [1] [2]
(エイブラハム・リンカーン) Abraham Lincoln [1]
(カメハメハ1世) King Kamehameha [1]
(カラカウア) King Kalakaua [1]
Hawaii Ishizuchi Jinja
(ハワイ石鎚神社)
Honolulu Ishizuchi-Hiko-no-Mikoto
(石鎚毘古命)
Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha – Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu
(ハワイ金刀比羅神社・ハワイ太宰府天満宮)
Honolulu Ōmononushi-no-Mikoto, Sugawara-no-Michizane-kō
(大物主命・菅原道真公)
Hilo Daijingū
(ヒロ大神宮)
Hilo Amaterasu-Sume-Ōkami, Toyouke-no-Ōkami
(天照皇大神・豊受大神)
Izumo Taishakyo Mission of Hawaii
(ハワイ出雲大社)
Honolulu Ōkuninushi-no-Ōkami, Hawaiubusunagami
(大國主大神・ハワイ産土神)
Maalaea Ebisu Kotohira Jinsha
(マラエア恵比須金刀比羅神社)
Maalaea Ebisu
(恵比須)
Maui Jinsha Mission
(マウイ神社)
Wailuku
Wakamiya Inari Shrine
(若宮稲荷神社)
Waipahu Inari Ōkami
(稲荷大神)
Flag of Washington.svg  Washington
Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America - CLOSED/NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC as of June 2023, No Preist available to continue the overseeing of the Shrine
(アメリカ椿大神社)
Granite Falls Sarutahiko-no-Ōkami, Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (猿田彦大神・天鈿女命), [3] Amerika Kokudo Kunitama-no-Kami [4] (アメリカ国道国魂神)

United States territories

Shrine nameLocationEnshrined deity
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg  Northern Mariana Islands
Saipan Katori Jinja
彩帆香取神社)
Garapan, Saipan Futsunushi-no-kami
(経津主神)
Saipan Hachiman Jinja
(彩帆八幡神社)
Kagman, Saipan Saipan-Kunitama-no-Ōkami
(サイパン国魂大神), Hachiman-Ōkami
(八幡大神), Isaizu-Ōkami
(久伊豆大神)

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Kami are the deities, divinities, spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, beings and the qualities that these beings express, and/or the spirits of venerated dead people. Many kami are considered the ancient ancestors of entire clans. Traditionally, great leaders like the Emperor could be or became kami.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amaterasu</span> Sun goddess in Shinto

Amaterasu Ōmikami, often called Amaterasu for short, also known as Ōhirume no Muchi no Kami (大日孁貴神), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. Often considered the chief deity (kami) of the Shinto pantheon, she is also portrayed in Japan's earliest literary texts, the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, as the ruler of the heavenly realm Takamagahara and as the mythical ancestress of the Imperial House of Japan via her grandson Ninigi. Along with two of her siblings she ranks as one of the "Three Precious Children", the three most important offspring of the creator god Izanagi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ise Shrine</span> Shinto shrine in Japan

The Ise Shrine, located in Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the solar goddess Amaterasu. Officially known simply as Jingū (神宮), Ise Shrine is a shrine complex composed of many Shinto shrines centered on two main shrines, Naikū (内宮) and Gekū (外宮).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Izumo-taisha</span> Oldest Shinto shrine in Japan

Izumo-taisha, officially Izumo Ōyashiro, is one of the most ancient and important Shinto shrines in Japan. No record gives the date of establishment. Located in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, it is home to two major festivals. It is dedicated to the god Ōkuninushi, famous as the Shinto deity of marriage and to Kotoamatsukami, distinguishing heavenly kami. The shrine is believed by many to be the oldest Shinto shrine in Japan, even predating the Ise Grand Shrine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shinto shrine</span> Japanese shrine of the Shinto religion

A Shinto shrine is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, the deities of the Shinto religion.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ōyamatsumi</span> Japanese god

Ōyama-tsumi or Ohoyama-tsumi, also Ōyama-tsumi-mi'oya-no-mikoto (大山祇御祖命), is a god of mountains, sea, and war in Japanese mythology. He is an elder brother of Amaterasu and Susanoo. His other names are Watashi-no-Ōkami (和多志大神) and Sakatoke (酒解神).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ninigi-no-Mikoto</span> Shinto god

Ninigi-no-Mikoto is a deity in Japanese mythology. Grandson of the sun goddess Amaterasu, Ninigi is regarded according to Japanese mythology as the great-grandfather of Japan’s first emperor, Emperor Jimmu. The three sacred treasures brought with Ninigi from Heaven and divine ancestry established the Japanese Imperial Family.

<i>Shinbutsu-shūgō</i> Japanese syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism

Shinbutsu-shūgō, also called Shinbutsu-konkō, is the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism that was Japan's main organized religion up until the Meiji period. Beginning in 1868, the new Meiji government approved a series of laws that separated Japanese native kami worship, on one side, from Buddhism which had assimilated it, on the other.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ugayafukiaezu</span> Figure in Japanese mythology and Shinto

Ugayafukiaezu no Mikoto (鵜葺草葺不合命) is a Shinto kami, and is in Japanese mythology, the father of Japan's first Emperor, Emperor Jimmu.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America</span> Shinto shrine in Granite Falls, Washington, US

Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, also sometimes known as Tsubaki America Jinja or in Japanese as amerika tsubaki ōkamiyashiro (アメリカ椿大神社), was the first Shinto shrine built in the mainland United States after World War II. It was erected in 1986 in Stockton, California, and moved to its location next to the Pilchuck River in Granite Falls, Washington, in 2001.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Toyouke-hime</span> Goddess of agriculture and industry in the Shinto religion

Toyouke-hime is the goddess of agriculture, industry, food, clothing, and houses in the Shinto religion. Originally enshrined in the Tanba region of Japan, she was called to reside at Gekū, Ise Shrine, about 1,500 years ago at the age of Emperor Yūryaku to offer sacred food to Amaterasu Ōmikami, the Sun Goddess.

Ame-no-Minakanushi is a deity (kami) in Japanese mythology, portrayed in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki as the first or one of the first deities who manifested when heaven and earth came into existence.

In Japanese mythology, the tenson kōrin (天孫降臨) is the descent of Amaterasu's grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto from Heaven (Takamagahara) to Ashihara no Nakatsukuni; according to legend, the direct place of descent is at Takachiho-gawara in Japan. Following the tenson kōrin, Ninigi's son, Hoori, was born.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shinto in Korea</span> Religion in Korea

The origins of Shinto in Korea are primarily a result of Japan's incursions since an unbalanced treaty in 1876. Shinto's rise in Korea is directly associated with the Japanese government's ideological use of the traditional folk practices of Japan, later described as "State Shinto." As Japan expanded its control of Korea, it also expanded the number of shrines, with the aim of one national shrine in each province. Before 1945, attendance at shrines was in many cases compulsory.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ame-no-oshihomimi</span>

Amenooshihomimi (天忍穗耳尊,天之忍穂耳命) or Oshihomimi for short, is the first son of Amaterasu.

Takamimusubi is a god of agriculture in Japanese mythology, who was the second of the first beings to come into existence.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Izumo-daijingū</span> Building in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Izumo Daijingū (出雲大神宮) is a Shinto shrine in the Chitose neighborhood of the city of Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Tanba Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on the October 21.

Kunitama (国魂) is a type of kami or god who acts as a tutelary deity or guardian of a province of Japan or sometimes other areas in shinto.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daijingu Temple of Hawaii</span> Shrine in Honolulu, Hawaii

The Daijingu Temple of Hawaii is a Shinto Shinmei shrine located in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. It is also known as the Honolulu Grand Shrine (ホノルル大神宮) and is the oldest Shinto shrine on Oahu.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Kawasaki, Bishop Kazoe. "About – Daijingu Temple of Hawaii". Hawaii Daijingu Kyodan. Retrieved 2022-06-30. The kami enshrined in the Hawaii Daijingu Temple are many; The Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, the myriads of kami who flank Amaterasu Omikami, the national father George Washington, the nation's restorer Abraham Lincoln and other men and women of distinguished services, King Kamehameha, King Kalakaua, and other men and women of great services to the state of Hawaii.
  2. "Shrines and Hawaiians of Japanese descent". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugakuin University. Retrieved 2022-06-30. George Washington has been included in the pantheon of kami (saijin) worshipped at Hawaiian shrines (...)
  3. Ramella, Sueann (2013-10-08). "What's So Special About This Shinto Shrine? The Priest Isn't Japanese, But That's Not All". Northwest Public Broadcasting.
  4. Encyclopedia of Global Studies. SAGE Publications. 2012. p. 1539. ISBN   9781412994224.

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