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Modern SitesSite Name: Ichinomiya Jinja shrine (in KitaKyūshū city) Alternative Name: 一宮神社Country: Japan Region: Kyūshū Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: KitaKyūshū (Fukuoka prefecture Nearest Village: Yamadera-machi 山寺町
Latitude: 33.860680N Longitude: 130.756670E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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“Ichi-no-miya” means ‘the 1st grade (= principal) shrine [in the province]’, so numerous Ichinomiya shrines exist throughout Japan (there also exist 2nd grade (Ninomiya), 3rd garde (Sannomiya) shirines and place names are often adopted from them e.g. Sannomiya downtown in Kōbe). The Japanese myth says that the 1st (imaginary) emperor Jimmu stayed around here for a while but actually this shrine is the result of merger of 3 independent shrines and renamed in 1950.
At the end of a side path at the entrance of the shrine, there are a round and a square flat cairns surrounded by a fence. Some people believe them as the remains of proto Shinto religion, but they were ‘discovered and reported’ after the merge and the rename of the shrine, and does not look aged.
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