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Thursday, May 2, 2024
Hokao Shrine Arita
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"Like many local shrines, origin and even kami enshrined are lost in time." -- can you speak to why that is the case?
ReplyDeletemany local shrines simply see their kami as an anonymous ujigami, ie local, ancestral, protective kami
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