hokora - small shrine

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hokora, hokura, shi 祠 （叢祠　神庫） small shrine



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A small shrine dedicated to a minor kami. The term may also be read hokura.
Originally, the term referred to a storeroom (kura) raised on stilts for the storage of shrine treasures (shinpō). A passage in the Nihongi notes that "a shrine storehouse (kamikura) is called ho-ku-ra."

In the medieval period, however, the term came to be used for a small shrine dedicated to a kami that did not warrant the construction of a full-fledged jinja. A variety of character combinations was used to indicate the pronunciation hokura, including those shown above, and the term came to be interpreted as meaning a "narrow store" (hoso-kura).

At present, the term hokora is used to refer to small auxiliary shrines located within the precincts (keidai chi) of a larger shrine, but built on a smaller scale and dedicated to local folk-religious cults, or else found along roadsides outside of shrine precincts and dedicated to kami not under the jurisdiction of any specific shrine.
Small shrines dedicated to the border deities called dōsojin would fall into this latter category.
source : Mori Mizue, 2005, Kokugakuin




. WKD : chinju doo 鎮守堂 Hall for the local, regional Kami .


. Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja　神社) - Introduction .



. Isonokami Jinguu 石上神宮 Isonokami Jingu .
hokura matsuri 神庫祭 Hokura festival (December 31)



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shinko, jinko, hokura 神庫 / 宝倉 - "treasure house"


source :　kassy1946

san jinko 三神庫 the three Jinko in Nikko

shimo jinko 下神庫-しもじんこ - lower
naka jinko 中神庫-なかじんこ - middle
kami jinko 上神庫-かみじんこ - upper

. Nikkoo Tooshooguu 東照宮 Nikko Toshogu and Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 .


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ｍatsu no kaze　hiru yo hibikinu　hito towanu
yama no hokora no　ishi-uma no mimi ni

The wind in the pines
Soughs night and day
In the ears of the stone horse
At a mountain shrine
Where no man worships.
Tr. Bownas and Thwaite

Ishikawa Takuboku 石川啄木　(1886-1912)


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. Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規 visiting shrines and temples .


Trying to locate the various shrines and temples where Shiki wrote the following haiku.
If you know any location, please add it as a comment to this entry.
Thank you!


茶の花や祠小暗き庭の隅
cha no hana ya hokora koguraki niwa no sumi

blossoms of the tee tree -
the small shrine in the darkness
in a corner of the garden


中宮祠に滝の音聞く夏の月

灯ともせば蚊の騒ぎ立つ祠かな

祠淋し一むら芒そよそよと

赤飯に春日さしたる祠かな


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furu hokora, koshi 古祠 old Hokora

下闇に入りて凛たる古祠
笹間てるゑ

小綬鶏や鈴の緒切れし古祠
木光歩


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shinshi 淫祠 Hokora for a doubtful, unreliable deity

山内にひとつ淫祠や小六月
Kawabata Bosha 川端茅舎

淫祠に見入る少年虫の顔をして
中村苑子

霧脱げど公示空白淫祠灯る
香西照雄


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shooshi 小祠 small Hokora

秋月の小寺小祠赤のまま
矢島渚男

地下街に灯る小祠一の午
三谷蘭の秋

小祠に豆粒ほどの蟻地獄
細井将人

小祠の切子硝子や春立てる
Tsuji Momoko 辻桃子


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yama hokora 山祠 Hokora in the mountain

ゆく水に紅葉をいそぐ山祠
飯田蛇笏

小春日のりすの顔出す山祠
林虎夫

山祠左右の扉に松飾り
石原栄子

花過ぎの薄日にねむる山祠
有泉七種


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