Kantō Shrine
Appearance
Kantō Shrine | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Shinto |
Deity | Emperor Meiji Amaterasu Omikami |
Glossary of Shinto |
Kantō Shrine (関東神宮, Kantō jingu) was a Shinto shrine in Lüshunkou District, Kwantung Leased Territory (today Lüshunkou District, Dalian, Liaoning, China). It was established on June 1, 1938, and closed in 1945 at the end of the Japanese occupation of China. It was formerly an imperial shrine of the first rank (官幣社, kanpeisha) in the Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines. The kami enshrined here were Emperor Meiji and Amaterasu Omikami.
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Categories:
- Japanese diaspora in China
- Shinto in China
- 1938 establishments in the Japanese colonial empire
- Jingū
- History of Dalian
- Religion in Liaoning
- Shinto shrines in the Japanese colonial empire
- Religious organizations established in 1938
- Religious buildings and structures completed in 1938
- Religious organizations disestablished in 1945
- 20th-century Shinto shrines
- Shinto stubs
- Kanpei Taisha
- Shinmei shrines