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is a Shinto shrine located on Mount Yoshino in Yoshino district, Nara, Japan.〔Richard, Ponsonby-Fane. (1964) '' Visiting Famous Shrines in Japan,'' pp. 300-307.〕 It is closely associated with Emperor Go-Daigo. The Shrine is dedicated to ''mikumari'', a female Shinto ''kami'' associated with water, fertility and safe birth. Yoshino Mikumari Shrine is one of four important ''mikumari'' shrines in the former province Yamato. The shrine also houses six ''kami'' that are more or less related to mikumari (Takami-musubi-no-kami, Sukuna-hiko-no-kami, Mikogami, Ama-tsu-hiko-hi-no-ninigi-no-mikoto], Tamayori-hime-no-mikoto, and Yorozu-hata-toyo-akitsushi-hime-no-mikoto). A wooden statue of the deity Tamayori hime is registered as a National Treasure of Japan. The presents day buildings go back to 1605, when Toyotomi Hideyori rebuilt the shrine, as his father Toyotomi Hideyoshi once had prayed here for a son and successor. The main hall (''honden''), an Important Cultural Property，is an unusual structure 9 ''ken'' long and 2 ''ken'' wide. Built in the ''nagare-zukuri'' style, it has however an independent 1x1 ''ken'' unit in the ''kasuga-zukuri'' style at the center. The three resulting edifices all lie under the same bark roof, which has three dormer gables. In 2004, It was designated as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name ''Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range''. ==See also== * List of Shinto shrines * Twenty-Two Shrines * List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures) * Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yoshino Mikumari Shrine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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