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.
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.
Hachiman
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Hachiman, formerly known in Shinto as Yawata, is the syncretic divinity of archery and war, incorporating elements from both Shinto and Japanese Buddhism.
The Shinto deity Hachiman (Kamakura period 1326) at Tokyo National Museum (Lent by Akana Hachimangū), Important Cultural Property
Empress Jingū, mother of Emperor Ōjin
Usa Shrine, at Usa in Oita Prefecture dedicated to Hachiman, founder and patron deity of this city
The Buddhist Sogyō Hachiman depicted in the attire of a Buddhist monk, syncretised from the Shinto deity Hachiman