Keijō Shrine (京城神社, Keijō-jinja, Korean: 경성신사), sometimes Seoul Shrine,[1]: 65 [2]: 139 was a Shinto shrine in Keijō (Seoul), Korea, Empire of Japan. The shrine was established on November 3, 1898,[3][4] and destroyed on November 17, 1945, several months after the end of colonial rule.[5]
The shrine was located to the north of the mountain Namsan.
Theological history
Initially the shrine only worshipped Amaterasu but it later added the Three Pioneer Kami (開拓三神, Kaitaku Sanjin)Ōkunitama [simple], Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona used in Japanese colonial shrines. after it was established that it would not become the Chosen Jingu.[2]: 140
Uniquely it referred to Kunitama as Chosen Kunitama suggesting a distinctly Korean flavor, as this shrine attempted to integrate many Korean customs.[2]: 140 Many locals identified "Chosen Kunitama" with Dangun.[2]: 140
In 1936 the government released a memo saying that Okunitama was in fact a generic title for any Korean deity and not Dangun. The name was also changed to Kunitama-no-Okami as a parallel to Amaterasu Omikami[2]: 140
Gallery
A building in the shrine complex dedicated to Japanese General Nogi Maresuke.[6]
Torii
Honden
Interior
Pavilion
Torii
Entrance statues
References
^Henry, Todd (2014). Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. University of California Press. ISBN9780520958418.
^ abcdeShimizu, Karli; Rambelli, Fabio (2022-10-06). Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire. London New York (N.Y.) Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN978-1-350-23498-7.
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