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A Shinmei shrine in Niiza City enshrining Amateras…
8 min by bus from Seibu Ikebukuro Line Higashi-Kurume Station
1-chome Hatanaka, Niiza, Saitama
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A Shinmei shrine in Niiza City enshrining Amaterasu, the sun goddess and highest deity in the Shinto pantheon. Connected to Ise faith, it has been revered as a guardian of the agricultural communities of Niiza, which developed as a reclamation area under the Nobidome waterway project.
Niiza Shinmei Shrine is said to have been founded around 1550, during the Tenbun era (1532–1555). As a Shinmei shrine dedicated to Amaterasu, the supreme solar deity of the Shinto pantheon, it was established as part of the widespread Ise faith tradition, through which Amaterasu was enshrined in com…
Cleansing impurity, spiritual purification, driving away evil. Rooted in misogi ablutions and goma fire rites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "天照大御神"
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