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[[Image:Nonomiya.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Nonomiya Shrine.]]
*''Japanese'': 野々宮神社 ''(Nonomiya jinja)''
Nonomiya Shrine is a [[Shinto shrine]] in the Arashiyama area of the city of [[Kyoto]], near the [[Buddhist temple]] [[Tenryu-ji|Tenryû-ji]].
Historically, Imperial princesses were sent to [[Ise Shrine]] to serve as shrine maidens, known as ''[[saigu|saigû]]'', or "Ise Vestals," first spent a year within the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial Palace]], and then three years at Nonomiya, ritually purifying themselves in preparation for entering service at Ise Shrine.
Due to its association with Ise Shrine, and its need to be a place of particular purity, during the [[Heian period]], the shrine was rebuilt with each imperial reign. In the [[Nanbokucho Period|Nanbokuchô Period]], the shrine was temporarily dismantled, but later rebuilt, with a ''[[torii]]'' in black wood, and a brushwood fence, two features which came to be strongly associated with the site.
The shrine appears in the [[Tale of Genji]], and as a result, in the [[Noh]] play ''[[Nonomiya (play)|Nonomiya]]'', in ''[[waka]]'' poetry, and elsewhere, referencing the events of that episode of the ''Genji'', in which Prince Genji visits one such Imperial princess, the daughter of Lady Rokujô, who is purifying herself at the shrine.
Today, the shrine is dedicated to [[Amaterasu]], and to the fire deity. The shrine's ''torii'' gate, made traditionally of beams of a black wood called ''kunuki'' with the bark still on, is said to represent the original, oldest form of historical ''torii''.
==References==
*Plaques on-site.
[[Category:Shrines]]
[[Category:Heian Period]]
*''Japanese'': 野々宮神社 ''(Nonomiya jinja)''
Nonomiya Shrine is a [[Shinto shrine]] in the Arashiyama area of the city of [[Kyoto]], near the [[Buddhist temple]] [[Tenryu-ji|Tenryû-ji]].
Historically, Imperial princesses were sent to [[Ise Shrine]] to serve as shrine maidens, known as ''[[saigu|saigû]]'', or "Ise Vestals," first spent a year within the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial Palace]], and then three years at Nonomiya, ritually purifying themselves in preparation for entering service at Ise Shrine.
Due to its association with Ise Shrine, and its need to be a place of particular purity, during the [[Heian period]], the shrine was rebuilt with each imperial reign. In the [[Nanbokucho Period|Nanbokuchô Period]], the shrine was temporarily dismantled, but later rebuilt, with a ''[[torii]]'' in black wood, and a brushwood fence, two features which came to be strongly associated with the site.
The shrine appears in the [[Tale of Genji]], and as a result, in the [[Noh]] play ''[[Nonomiya (play)|Nonomiya]]'', in ''[[waka]]'' poetry, and elsewhere, referencing the events of that episode of the ''Genji'', in which Prince Genji visits one such Imperial princess, the daughter of Lady Rokujô, who is purifying herself at the shrine.
Today, the shrine is dedicated to [[Amaterasu]], and to the fire deity. The shrine's ''torii'' gate, made traditionally of beams of a black wood called ''kunuki'' with the bark still on, is said to represent the original, oldest form of historical ''torii''.
==References==
*Plaques on-site.
[[Category:Shrines]]
[[Category:Heian Period]]