Engishiki Jinmyocho
The Engishiki Jinmyocho is a historical list of Shinto shrines.
The text from Volume 9 of the "Engishiki" can be found in the Complete Works of Japanese Classics. [1]
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
- Kokushi genzaisha ones in the Rikkokushi but not the Engishiki
- Myojin Taisha ones listed as especially significant
- Shikinai Taisha another class
- Shikigeisha ones that were ignored by both the Engishiki Jinmyocho and the Rikkokushi
Related pages
References
- 正宗敦夫編纂『延喜式』2巻、日本古典全集刊行會、1929年、65頁。
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