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*''Founded: [[1773]], [[Shimazu Shigehide]]''
*''Japanese'': 神農堂 ''(Jinnou dou)''

The Jinnô-dô was a shrine in [[Kagoshima]], dedicated to [[Emperor Yan]] / [[Shennong|the Emperor of the Five Grains]]. The shrine was established by [[Shimazu Shigehide]] in [[1773]].

That same year, on 1773/9/20, Shigehide established a Confucian shrine on the same grounds, to which [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|scholar-bureaucrats]] from the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] could worship, when removed from the [[Shiseibyo|Shiseibyô]] in their home country.

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==References==
*Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 81.

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