kunitama
Sign in to saveKunitama (国魂) is a type of kami or god who acts as a tutelary deity or guardian of a province of Japan or sometimes other areas in Shinto.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Outside of Japan
- In Korea
- Other areas
- List of Okunitama shrines
- See also
- Notes
- References
Kunitama (国魂) is a type of kami or god who acts as a tutelary deity or guardian of a province of Japan or sometimes other areas in Shinto.
The term is sometimes treated as a specific deity itself especially with Hokkaidō Shrine, and other colonial shrines, a or as an epithet in the case of Okunitama Shrine or a part of a deity's name in the case of Yamato Okunitama, whose name is also sometimes interpreted as an epithet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kunitama” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.