Shinto priest
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Shinto priests are members of the clergy at a Shinto shrine responsible for maintaining the shrine and leading worship of the kami there. In Japanese, they are also commonly referred to as kannushi. T
A Shinto priest wearing a jōe being accompanied by two miko
A Shinto priest in full dress, Katori Shrine
A Shinto priest wearing a kariginu and an eboshi hat
Shinto shrine
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A Shinto shrine is a structure whose main purpose is to house one or more kami, the deities of the Shinto religion.
Shinto priest
…Shinto priests (神職, shinshoku) are members of the clergy at a Shinto shrine (神社, jinja) responsible for maintaining the shrine and leading worship of the kami there. In Japanese, they are also commonly referred to as kannushi…
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.