"For a jinja, one must choose a suitable place and then create an appropriate setting for a sacred space. Then it is necessary to ask Kami to descend upon it and make its presence felt. In other words, jinja need not be a place where Kami have dwelled eternally, or will always live."
Motohisa Yamakage

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 3: What is Jinja?, p. 72

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