Engishiki Jinmyocho

The text from Volume 9 of the "Engishiki" can be found in the Complete Works of Japanese Classics. [1]

The Engishiki Jinmyocho is a historical list of Shinto shrines.

It was written in the Heian period and is the source of the designation of shrines as Myojin Taisha.

It is a section of the Engishiki

Shrine categorizations

Many categorizations of shrines come from this book:

References

  1. ↑ 正宗敦夫編纂『延喜式』2巻、日本古典全集刊行會、1929年、65頁。