, located in
Setagaya, Tokyo
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood and administrative district within the ward. The ward calls itself Setagaya City in English. Its official bird is the azure-winged magpie, its flower is the fringed orch ...
, is the
Shinto
Shinto () is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners ''Shintois ...
shrine
A shrine ( la, scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: ''escrin'' "box or case") is a sacred or holy sacred space, space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor worship, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, Daemon (mythology), daem ...
that is dedicated to the deified spirit of
Yoshida Shōin, an activist during the
Edo era.
History
Shoin was executed by the Shogunate in prison in Tenmacho, Edo in 1859, his body was reburied in Wakabayashi by his followers in 1863. The shrine was erected in 1882, and the current main shrine building was built in 1927.
Shoin Jinja - History
Retrieved December 3, 2015
Shrine complex
Gallery
File:Shoin shrine main torii - april 30 2017.jpg, Main torii
A is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred.
The presence of a ''torii'' at the entrance is usually the simplest ...
gates
File:Shoin shrine main building inside - april 30 2017.jpg, Inside the haiden
File:Shoin shrine - shoka-sonjuku - april 30 2017.jpg, Reproduction of "Shoka-Sonjuku"
File:Shoin shrine main torii - taisho era.jpg, Shōin shrine in the Taishō period
File:Shoin-jinja-no-torii.jpg, Shoin Shrine Torii Gate
See also
* List of Shinto shrines
For lists of Shinto shrines, see:
*List of Shinto shrines in Japan
**List of Shinto shrines in Kyoto
*List of Shinto shrines outside Japan
**List of Shinto shrines in Taiwan
**List of Shinto shrines in the United States
See also
*List of Jingū ...
References
External links
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1882 establishments in Japan
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1927
Buildings and structures in Setagaya
Shinto shrines in Tokyo