By LISA VOGT/ Special to Asahi Weekly
February 20, 2024 at 07:30 JST
Visitors pray at Munakata Taisha, which comprises three shrines devoted to the three Munakata goddesses: Okitsu-miya on Okinoshima island, Nakatsu-miya on Oshima island and Hetsu-miya on the Kyushu mainland. The deities have also been worshipped there for many years as the gods of mariners and for traffic safety on land as well. (Photo by Lisa Vogt)
The Munakata region lies northeast of the city of Fukuoka and faces the rough Genkai Sea. Sixty kilometers off the coast of Kyushu is Okinoshima, a sacred island between the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula. It is not quite a kilometer in physical size, but it is huge in its non-physical dimension as it showcases the evolution of Shinto rituals. [Read More]
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