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Ontake Daijin Shrine

御嶽大神

Ontake Daijin

Kanagawa

A shrine dedicated to the mountain deity Ontake no Mikoto, part of the Ontake mountain worship tradition. These shrines are associated with spiritual purification and mountain climbing practices that developed in the Edo period.

Denomination
Ontake
Religion
shinto
Enshrined kami
Ontake no Mikoto
Kami enshrined
Ontake no Mikoto
Coordinates
35.4159352, 139.3941157

Cultural notes

Ontake worship combines Shinto mountain veneration with elements of Buddhism and folk religion. Practitioners traditionally engage in ritual purification and mountain pilgrimage as forms of spiritual discipline.

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