The Tokyo Jinja Project

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An online open-source archive project focused on exploring shrines within the 23 special wards of Tokyo though photography and video -  "The overriding sense of Tokyo is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern science-fiction story set ten minutes in the future."David Rakoff Tokyo is also a city with deep roots. According to a survey by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, there are 1,479 official shrines within Tokyo Prefecture. For those of us who are what I like to call "Shrine-inclined" it is a wonderful th ...

Read More ing that so much cultural heritage is located in a such a fast-paced, yet quiet metropolis. Shinto shrines(jinja in Japanese)are places of worship and the dwellings of the kami, the Shinto "gods". Sacred objects of worship that represent the kami are stored in the innermost chamber of the shrine where they cannot be seen by anyone.People vi

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