haiden

In the middle is the sacred enclosure, formed of gilded trellis-work with painted borders above and below, forming a square of which each side measures 150 feet, and which contains the haiden or chapel.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

They reached a spacious gravel courtyard, bounded by the outbuildings, the haiden, the oratory and the heiden, the offertory hall.

Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

The great carven dragon which writhes above the entrance of the Kitzuki haiden used, I am told, to crawl about the roofs at night -- until a carpenter was summoned to cut its wooden throat with

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Of more humble ex-votos, there is a queer collection in the shamusho or business building on the right of the haiden: a series of quaintly designed and quaintly coloured pictures, representing ships in great storms, being guided or aided to port by the power of Koto-shiro - nushi-no-Kami.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Goddess of the Sun. On the right side of the main court, as you enter, another broad flight of steps leads up to a loftier court, where another fine group of Shinto buildings stands -- a haiden and a miya; but these are much smaller, like miniatures of those below.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The entire structure of the smaller temple and its haiden, with the exception of the shrine-room, has just been rebuilt -- in fact, the work is not yet quite done -- so that the emblem of the deity is not at present in the sanctuary.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

There is, however, a little haiden, or place of prayer, with nothing in it but a money-box and a bell, before the fence, and facing the temple steps.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

From the court gate a broad paved walk leads to the haiden and shamusho at the opposite end of the court -- spacious and dignified structures above whose roofs appears the quaint and massive gable of the main temple, with its fantastic cross-beams.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Beyond all this the walls and gate of the outer temple court appear, and beyond them, the roofs of the great haiden, and the pierced projecting cross - beams of the loftier Go-Miojin, the holy shrine itself, relieved against the green of the wooded hills.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877