Okinawa Gokoku Shrine
| Okinawa Gokoku Shrine | |
|---|---|
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Shinto |
| Type | Gokoku shrine (Formerly Shokonsha) |
| Year consecrated | 1936 |
 Glossary of Shinto | |
Okinawa Gokoku Shrine 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]
The Okinawa Gokoku-jinja Shrine also enshrines the dead of the Battle of Okinawa, including ordinary residents, schoolchildren in distress, and civilian war dead.[2][3] In addition, about 10,000 mobilized students and female volunteer corps members who were victims of the Atomic bomb are also enshrined as deities at Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine.[4][5]
The main hall burned down during the Pacific War and was reconstructed in 1959.[6]
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]
References[edit]
- ↑ TAKAYAMA, K. PETER (1990). "Enshrinement and Persistency of Japanese Religion". Journal of Church and State. 32 (3): 527–547. ISSN 0021-969X.
- ↑ 山中 2013、212頁
- ↑ "沖縄県護国神社について｜初詣、ご祈願、地鎮祭は、沖縄県護国神社". 2022-03-08. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-08. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 山中 2013、154頁
- ↑ "由緒 | 広島護國神社". 2021-01-20. Archived from the original on 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ↑ Takenaka, Akiko (2017-10-16). Yasukuni Shrine. University of Hawaii Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-8248-5693-9. Search this book on
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