The Katori Shrine (香取神宮, Katori Jingū) is a Shintō shrine in the city of Katori in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Shimōsa Province, and is the head shrine of the approximately 400 Katori shrines around the country (located primarily in the Kantō region).[1] The main festival of the shrine is held annually on April 14, with a three-day Grand Festival held every 12 years.[2]
^Shibuya, Nobuhiro (2015). Shokoku jinja Ichinomiya Ninomiya San'nomiya (in Japanese). Yamakawa shuppansha. ISBN 978-4634150867.
^Plutschow. Matsuri: The Festivals of Japan. Page 173
The KatoriShrine (香取神宮, Katori Jingū) is a Shintō shrine in the city of Katori in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Shimōsa Province...
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War II. The ship was named after the noted Shinto KatoriShrine in Chiba prefecture, Japan. Katori-class cruisers were originally ordered to serve as...
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visited Edogawa in 1719 for hunting and stopped at the local KatoriShrine for lunch. The shrine priest served him soup with a rice cake and a local leaf...
wandering the land until he settled down near the KatoriShrine and founded the Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū in c.1447. De Lange, William (2006). Famous...
divination when Amaterasu hid in a cave. Futsunushi (経津主神) Main deity at KatoriShrine. Haniyasu no kami, two deities born from Izanami's feces. Hoderi (火照命)...
A Shinto shrine (神社, jinja, archaic: shinsha, meaning: "place of the god(s)") is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami...
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where Chiba Shrine stands was originally part of the precincts of a nearby Katori branch shrine known as Innai KatoriShrine (院内香取神社, Innai Katori-jinja)....
Just as Takemikazuchi was chief deity of Kashima Shrine, this Futsunushi was the chief of the KatoriShrine. In the early centuries, when the Yamato rulers...
wearing a jōe being accompanied by two miko A kannushi in full dress, KatoriShrine A kannushi wearing a kariginu and an eboshi hat To become a kannushi...
period concrete stairway. The Saipan KatoriShrine in the park was rebuilt in 1985 to replace the original Katori Jinja from the Japanese period. The Nanmeido...
throughout the year. Major Shinto shrine festivals include the Sanno Festival at Hie Shrine, and the Sanja Festival at Asakusa Shrine. The Kanda Matsuri in Tokyo...
generation succeeded the last. In an attempt to pass down the information, KatoriShrine noted down the details of the rituals in various documents. Amongst...
Hitachi province in Japan. In his youth he travels to the KatoriShrine to study Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu (天真正伝香取神道流) with the school's founder Iizasa...
The Katori Sea (香取海, Katori Umi) refers to the vanished inland sea formerly located in the eastern part of the ancient Kantō Plain connected to the Pacific...
Hitachi province. While in his twenties he traveled to KatoriShrine to study the Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū under the third headmaster, Iizasa Wakasa...
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