Hananoiwaya Shrine

Hananoiwaya Shrine
Religion
AffiliationShinto
Website
https://hananoiwaya.com/index.html
Glossary of Shinto

Hananoiwaya Shrine (Japanese: 花窟神社) is a Shinto shrine in the Arima neighborhood of the city of Kumano, Mie, Japan.[1] It is a site of worship for the kami Izanami and Kagu-tsuchi. The shrine is the site of a cave, the Flower Cavern (花の窟), that is said to be the grave of Izanami.[2] The cave is believed to mark the entrance to the underworld where Izanagi attempted to find Izanami after she died giving birth to Kagu-tsuchi. According to the Nihon Shoki, after Izanagi saw Izanami's rotting corpse, he sealed the entrance from the world of the living with a large boulder.[3] In 2004, the shrine was registered as part of the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range by UNESCO.[4]

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  3. ^ Moerman, D. Max (2020-03-23). Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. BRILL. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-68417-399-0.
  4. ^ Sekai isan baka : Jitsuroku kumano kodo o sekai isan toroku shi chikyu ekoroji o jitsugen suru otoko. Kimiyoshi Tamaki, 公良 玉置. Bungeisha. January 2014. ISBN 978-4-286-14177-0. OCLC 872153791.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)