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Ontake Shrine (Otaki Approach)
長野県
Inner shrine of the Otaki approach to sacred Mt. Ontake, also a site of memorial for victims of the 2014 eruption
長野県木曽郡王滝村
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Ontake Shrine (Otaki approach inner shrine), enshrined along the Otaki trail up Mt. Ontake (3,067 m). One of the central shrines of Ontake faith, dedicated to Kunitokotachi no Mikoto, Onamuji no Mikoto, and Sukunahikona no Mikoto. In the Edo period, Ontake confraternities spread nationwide and many practitioners and pilgrims visited this sacred mountain. The legend that Yamato Takeru was blocked b…
Alpine worship of Mt. Ontake has existed since antiquity, but it was the work of the ascetic Kakumei Gyoja (1718-1786) around the Kyoho era (1716-1736) of the mid-Edo period that opened Ontake climbing to commoners and spread Ontake faith nationwide. The Otaki approach was developed from the mid-Edo…
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