Hakozaki Shrine
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Hakozaki Shrine is a Shintō shrine in Fukuoka.
Hakozaki Shrine's rōmon
Calligraphy Tekikoku kōfuku
Japanese samurai defending the stone barrier -- from the narrative picture scroll Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, which was painted between 1275 and 1293
The Shinan Ship on Her Way from Nimbo to Hakata (Courtesey of Mokpo MBC): from the Documentary Titled “The Great Discovery”
Shinto shrine
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A Shinto shrine is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, the deities of the Shinto religion.
Two women praying in front of a shrine
Mount Nantai, worshiped at Futarasan Shrine, has the shape of the phallic stone rods found in pre-agricultural Jōmon sites.
An example of jingū-ji: Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū-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.
Mount Fuji is Japan's most famous shintai.