![]() ![]() Toyouke-Daijingu (Geku) enshrines Toyouke-no-OKami. In the divine age (Kamiyo) when the heavenly grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto descended from the Great Plain of Heaven he brought with him the great gift of rice agriculture, the gift of Amaterasu-OmiKami. Kotaijingu (Naiku) enshrines Amaterasu-OmiKami, head of all heavenly (amatsu) Kami and deity of the sun. Jingu is composed of a large number of small shrines, centered around "Kotaijingu" and "Toyouke-Daijingu".it is the largest and most revered of all Shinto shrines in Japan. The Grand Shrine of Ise or "Jingu" is in Ise city in Mie. The present Kamidana has a deep relationship to the Grand Shrine of Ise. These treasures where to be enshrined as Kami. She was given sacred treasures by her father "Izanagi-no-Mikoto". Everyone can go outside in the morning, bow and clap and give thanks to Taiyo (Sun/solar progenitor) Shinto teaches us that we receive our lives from Amaterasu OmiKami (Primal Amatsu Kami) and it Sarutahiko-no-OKami who teches us how to live (Primal Kunitsu Kami) When we can sincerely thank the Sun for giving/sustaining our lives we are experiencing Shinto thinking/feeling.Īmaterasu-OmiKami was enshrined at the Grand Shrine of Ise in Mie prefecture. Having the Kamidana/Oyashiro in your home, office or dojo generates a truly wonderful fresh feeling. History of the Kamidana: The Kamidana exists to house the Ofuda (yearly symbol of OKami). Often Japanese households that maintain a kamidana also have a Buddhist family altar, or butsudan, as well. Offerings of water, sake it is a rice beer, food, and green twigs are placed daily at the front of the shrine, and prayers are offered for blessings on the household. The kamidana may also include a shimenawa, a sacred rope of twisted rice straw traditionally used to demarcate a sacred area. ![]() On either side are various paper amulets or o-fuda associated with local tutelary gods or uji-gami, and ancestral spirits. At the centre of the shrine stands the taima, an inscribed board from the main Shintō shrine at Ise, which represents a universal kami or somehow called a deity, or sacred power. The kamidana usually consists of a small cupboard or shelf on which are displayed articles of veneration and daily offerings. Kamidana or in Japanese language it is called “god-shelf”, in the Shintō religion of Japan, a miniature shrine, the centre of daily worship in a household or a shop. ![]()
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