Iki Gokoku Shrine
| Iki Gokoku Shrine | |
|---|---|
 Hondenja:壱岐神社 | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Shinto |
| Type | Gokoku shrine (Formerly Shokonsha) |
 Glossary of Shinto | |
Iki Gokoku Shrine (壱岐神社 Iki Jinja) is a Shinto shrine located in Japan. It is a Gokoku Shrine, or a shrine dedicated to war dead.[lower-alpha 1] Such shrines were made to serve to enshrine the war dead, and they were all considered "branches" of Yasukuni Shrine. They were renamed from Shokonsha in 1939.[1]
Although some of the deities of each shrine overlap with those of Yasukuni Shrine,[lower-alpha 2] the deities of each shrine are not separated from Yasukuni Shrine, and they perform their own rituals by inviting the souls of their own deities. However there are some exceptions, such as Hida Gokoku Shrine in Gifu Prefecture and Iki Gokoku Shrine in Nagasaki Prefecture.
See Also[edit]
- Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
- Hero shrine
- Martial temple and Wen Wu temple
- National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine
- Eternal Spring Shrine
- Chinese Cultural Renaissance
- Ancestral shrine
- Gallant Garden
- Gokoku Shrines
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Valhalla (home to the souls of fallen warriors in Scandinavian mythology)
- Walhalla Shrine (a hall of fame in Germany honoring "commendable and honorable Germans")
- Eternal Spring Shrine
- The common end of myriad good deeds
- Greek hero cult
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Is this WP:BLUE considering that the shrine is literally named as such?
- ↑ Yasukuni Shrine also enshrines the war dead as Heroic Spirits and was renamed from Tokyo Shokonsha, but includes Empire of the Empire of Japan, subjects, Koreans, Taiwanese, etc. The difference is that people from anywhere are eligible to be enshrined.
References[edit]
- ↑ TAKAYAMA, K. PETER (1990). "Enshrinement and Persistency of Japanese Religion". Journal of Church and State. 32 (3): 527–547. ISSN 0021-969X.
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