Shōkonsha

Shokonsha is a Shinto shrine in various places that enshrines the dead who were martyred for the State before, during and after the Meiji Restoration.

Explanation

岩倉具視「招魂社を建設する事」。

A horse race was also held at the shrine.

In 1863 (the third year of the Bunkyū), Takasugi Shinsaku decided that the Killed in action of the Shimonoseki campaign In order to console the souls of the Killed in actions of the Shimonoseki War, and to prepare for future battles, they decided that they needed their own Tombs, and with the support of the Kihei-tai, they decided to establish a joint shrine. In May 1864 (the first year of the Genji (era)), the Sakurayama Shokonsha (now Sakurayama Shrine), Japan's first shrine, was built in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Shimonoseki, and the shrine building was completed in August of the following year.。Sakurayama Shokonjo enshrines the fallen of the subsequent Sectional War and Boshin War, as well as Yoshida Shōin and Kusaka Genzui。

The idea of Shokonsha, which enshrines individual war dead as hidden persons regardless of their status before death, has since spread throughout Japan.。The Tokyo Shokonsha was renamed Yasukuni Shrine in 1879 by Emperor Meiji, and the main local Shokonsha was renamed Gokoku Shrine in 1939.

During the dynastic period, the Onmyōdo invocation rituals for the dead were prohibited. The Shinto rituals for the dead and living were known as shinkon no matsuri. The former name of Yasukuni Shrine, "Tokyo Shokonsha", sounded as if it was only a temporary invocation of the spirits of the gods in heaven, which was not appropriate as a name for a shrine where the spirits of the gods are eternally present.」However, even after the name change, the "Shokonsai" continued. However, even after the name change, the "Shokonsai" continued.

Literature

• 山本栄一郎 (2015). 山口「地理・地名・地図」の謎. じっぴコンパクト. 実業之日本社. ISBN 9784408455365. Search this book on

See Also

• State Shinto
• Yasukuni Shrine
• War memorial

External Links

• 櫻山神社

Category:State Shinto

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