Chinjusha
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In Japan, a chinjusha is a Shinto shrine which enshrines a tutelary kami ; that is, a patron spirit that protects a given area, village, building or a Buddhist temple. The Imperial Palace has its own
a typical Chinjusha seen on a temple complex
Motoyama-ji's chinjū-dō
Hiyoshi Taisha is Enryaku-ji's tutelary shrine, one of the largest such shrines
Jingū-ji
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Until the Meiji period, the jingū-ji were places of worship composed of a Buddhist temple and a Shinto shrine, both dedicated to a local kami. These complexes were born when a temple was erected next
Tsurugaoka Hachimangū-ji in an old drawing. In the foreground the shrine-temple's Buddhist structures (not extant), among them a pagoda, a belltower and a niōmon. The shrine (extant) is above.
Seiganto-ji is one of the very few existing jingū-ji.
A Buddhist pagoda (a Yakushi-dō (薬師堂) at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū-ji in Kamakura before the shinbutsu bunri