Chōkaisan Ōmonoimi Shrine
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Chōkaisan Ōmonoimi Shrine (Japanese: 鳥海山大物忌神社), also known as Chokaisan Ōmonoimi-jinja, is a Shinto shrine on Mount Chokai in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.[1][2][3][4] The shrine has three parts on different parts of the mountain: Fukura-kuchinomiya and Warabioka-kuchinomiya at the foot of the mountain and easier to access for visitors, and the main shrine – known as Sanchō-Gohonsha – on the mountain's summit.[5][6] The Shrine is a national historic site.[5]
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Chōkaisan Ōmonoimi Shrine | |
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鳥海山大物忌神社 | |
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Affiliation | Shinto |
Deity | Omonoimi no Kami, Toyoukebime, and Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto |
Glossary of Shinto |
The shrine is primarily dedicated to Omonoimi no Kami, the unique kami of the shrine,[5] but also worships Toyoukebime and Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto.[7][8] Omonoimi no Kami is considered possibly identical to Toyouke-hime[lower-alpha 1][9] who is also worshipped at the Warabioka subshrine.[7] Omonoimi no Kami is primarily associated with industrial growth and is also enshrined in other places in the Tōhoku region, including Chōkai gassan ryōsho-gu [simple; ja].[10]
The shrine directly worships the mountain as a Kannabi.[5][8][7] This is a rare practice and the only major shrines that continue the practice of direct Mountain Worship via Kannabi are Ōmiwa Shrine and Suwa-taisha and Kanasana Shrine.[11][12]
The shrine is the Dewa Province Ichinomiya, or the first ranked shrine of the Dewa Province.[5][13][14] It is close to the Three Mountains of Dewa which are also prominent spots of Mountain Worship.[13]
It is similar to Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha at Mount Fuji