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Goō Shrine

Index Goō Shrine

Goō Shrine (護王神社 ごおうじんじゃ Goō Jinja) is a Shinto shrine located in the Kamigyō-ku district of Kyoto, Japan. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Emperor Meiji, Heian-kyō, Japan, Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Komainu, Kyoto, Kyoto Imperial Palace, Kyoto Prefecture, Shinto, Shinto shrine, Wake no Kiyomaro, Wild boar.

  2. Bekkaku Kanpeisha
  3. Shinto shrines in Kyoto

Emperor Meiji

Mutsuhito (3 November 185230 July 1912), posthumously honored as Emperor Meiji, was the 122nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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Heian-kyō

Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto

is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Komainu

, often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.

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Kyoto

Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.

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Kyoto Imperial Palace

The is the former palace of the Emperor of Japan, located in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

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Kyoto Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.

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Shinto

Shinto is a religion originating in Japan.

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Shinto shrine

A Stuart D. B. Picken, 1994.

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Wake no Kiyomaro

was a high-ranking Japanese official during the Nara period.

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Wild boar

The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania.

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See also

Bekkaku Kanpeisha

Shinto shrines in Kyoto

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goō_Shrine