yashiro

Had it all happened a century before, the people would have built for them a yashiro, with altar and a shrine.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Shrines, yashiro, early Shinto; simple architecture of; in reign of

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

It is almost as deep as the outer court of the Kitzuki-no-oho-yashiro, though not nearly so wide; and a paved cloister forms two sides of it.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Vast as the courts of the Oho-yashiro are, the crowd within them is now so dense that one must move very slowly, for the whole population of

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

And from his time the fire-drills for the Oho-yashiro of Kitzuki have been made only at Kumano.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Then the landlord of the hotel, who seems to be a very kindly person, comes to us with lighted paper lanterns, and invites us to accompany him to the Oho-yashiro.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Something resembling the severe simplicity of the Kitzuki-no-oho-yashiro was what I expected to see.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

'You are, indeed,' he responds through Akira, 'the first European ever permitted to enter into the Oho-yashiro.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

'In what part of the Oho-yashiro,' I ask, 'do the august deities assemble during the Kami-ari-zuki?'

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Formerly there were in Kitzuki more than thirty families whose daughters served the Oho-yashiro as miko: to-day there are but two, and the number of virgin priestesses does not exceed six -- the one whose portrait I obtained being the chief.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877