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[[File:Futenma-shrine.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Futenma Shrine on New Year's, 2017]] Futenma Shrine is a [[Shinto shrine]] in the town of [[Ginowan]], on [[Okinawa Island]]. It is considered one o

[[File:Kin-gongen.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Kin Gongen Shrine Cave]] ...ddhist temple]] [[Kin Kannon-ji]] in [[Kin Town]], [[Okinawa Island]]. The shrine is considered one of the [[Ryukyu Eight Shrines]], the eight most important

*[[Naminoue Shrine]] - Wakasa, [[Naha]], assoc. with [[Gokoku-ji (Okinawa)|Gokoku-ji]] *[[Ameku Shrine]] (Ameku-gû) - [[Tomari]], Naha, assoc. with [[Seigen-ji (Okinawa)|Seigen-

[[File:Shadan.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Main hall of Sueyoshi Shrine]] Sueyoshi Shrine is a [[Kumano Gongen]] [[Shinto shrine]] located in Sueyoshi Park in [[Naha]], on [[Okinawa Island]]. It is consid

[[File:Ameku.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The main hall at Ameku Shrine]] Ameku Shrine is a [[Kumano]] shrine located in the [[Tomari]] neighborhood of [[Naha]], and associated with the

...self in the caves beneath the temple, where he then established Kin Gongen Shrine. Despite the ''[[shinbutsu bunri]]'' (dividing [[Shinto]] from [[Buddhism]]

[[File:Sue-no-aoe.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Sue no Aoe, a sword held at [[Atsuta Shrine]] said to have been used by Makara at Anegawa]] ...anor]] in Kasugai district, [[Owari province]].<ref>Gallery labels, Atsuta Shrine Treasure House.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/46252506822/sizes/

[[File:Oki-shrine.jpg|right|thumb|320px|One of several approaches to Oki-gû]] ...ormer.JPG|right|thumb|400px|A small stone marking the original site of Oki Shrine, today located within the Naha Wharf Container Shipping area]]

...A [[torii]] gate at the Iôshima [[Kumano gongen|Kumano Sanshû Daigongen]] Shrine is said to have been erected by Yukimori and Arimori in [[1201]]. An [[1829

...ularly performing rituals and prayers for the ''[[kami]]'' of the [[Kumano Shrine]]s.<ref>''The Tale of the Heike''. Chapter 2:15.</ref>. After roughly one y

Azato Hachiman-gû is a Shinto shrine in the Azato neighborhood of [[Naha]], on [[Okinawa Island]]. One of a grou ...or Ojin|Emperor Ôjin]]), [[Empress Jingu|Empress Jingû]], Ôyorihime, and [[Kumano Gongen]]. It featured a sacred bow & arrow, helmet & armor, and floating be

...ewfound association with [[Shinto]], the temple was renamed Oki-gû, or Oki Shrine. ...Akebono neighborhood of Naha. [[Oki Shrine]] survives as a separate Shinto shrine in Onoyama Park.

...Sôrin]] was a daughter of [[Nata Akimoto]], high priest of [[Usa Hachiman Shrine]]. Actively resisting [[Jesuit]] influence and the spread of Christianity i ...), mountain ascetics (''[[yamabushi]]''), and wandering Buddhist nuns (''[[Kumano bikuni]]''). The Jesuits readily identified her as "a sorcerer, magician, a

[[Image:Miyajima Alex.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Torii at Itsukushima Shrine]] [[Image:Shimogamo-torii.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Torii at Shimogamo Shrine]]

[[Image:Naminoue.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Naminoue Shrine, located high above the waves looking out over the South China Sea.]] *''Founded (formally as a Shinto shrine): [[1890]]''

...the [[Japanese calendar|third month]]. Ippen Shônin retires to a [[Kumano Shrine]] to pray, and has a dream (and/or is visited by a spirit) inspiring him to

...[[Kii province]], is visited by two monks on their way to [[Kumano Shrine|Kumano]] on pilgrimage. She allows them to stay the night, but later makes romanti

...that Abe no Semei was born in ''Abeno'' (阿倍野) in Osaka, and there is now a shrine to Abe no Seimei in that district. Seimei is said to be buried at [[Seimei Shrine]] in Kyoto.<ref>"[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=808

Act two opens at the [[Fushimi Inari Shrine]], where Benkei catches up to Yoshitsune, Shizuka, and the four retainers. ...Koremori, father of Rokudai and husband of Naishi, who he came across in [[Kumano]] and took into his home. He explains to Koremori that he just came across