3rd of May, 2014, and my final stop of day 9 of my walk along the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage was a fairly standard village shrine in Mito Onsen, in the Chugoku Mountains near Masuda.
There was no signboard, and I have been unable to unearth any information searching the web.
Plenty of small shrines within the grounds, almost certainly moved there in the early 20th century when local shrines were moved to national shrines.
Stone zuijin are not si common, and this one is quite recent.
As with most village shrines in Iwami, it is set up for annual kagura performaces...
Also unusual were the wooden masks, I suspect there is a mask-carver in the neighbourhood
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