Keijō Shrine

Keijō Shrine
Keijō Shrine
	Part of the shrine complex
Religion
Affiliation	Shinto
Deity	Amaterasu, Three Pioneer Kami (開拓三神, Kaitaku Sanjin) Ōkunitama [simple], Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona, Dangun?
Location
Municipality	Keijō
Country	Korea, Empire of Japan
Geographic coordinates	37°33′25″N 126°59′11″E / 37.5569°N 126.9864°E
Architecture
Date established	November 3, 1898
Destroyed	November 17, 1945
	Location relative to present-day Seoul
	Glossary of Shinto

Keijō Shrine (京城神社, Keijō-jinja, Korean: 경성신사), sometimes Seoul Shrine,^[1]^: 65^[2]^: 139 was a Shinto shrine in Keijō (Seoul), Korea, Empire of Japan. The shrine was established on November 3, 1898,^[3]^[4] and destroyed on November 17, 1945, several months after the end of colonial rule.^[5]

The shrine was located to the north of the mountain Namsan.

Theological history

Initially the shrine only worshipped Amaterasu but it later added the Three Pioneer Kami (開拓三神, Kaitaku Sanjin) Ōkunitama [simple], Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona used in Japanese colonial shrines. after it was established that it would not become the Chosen Jingu.^[2]^: 140

Uniquely it referred to Kunitama as Chosen Kunitama suggesting a distinctly Korean flavor, as this shrine attempted to integrate many Korean customs.^[2]^: 140 Many locals identified "Chosen Kunitama" with Dangun.^[2]^: 140

In 1936 the government released a memo saying that Okunitama was in fact a generic title for any Korean deity and not Dangun. The name was also changed to Kunitama-no-Okami as a parallel to Amaterasu Omikami^[2]^: 140

Gallery

A building in the shrine complex dedicated to Japanese General Nogi Maresuke.^[6]
Torii
Honden
Interior
Pavilion
Torii
Entrance statues

References

^ Henry, Todd (2014). Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520958418.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Shimizu, Karli; Rambelli, Fabio (2022-10-06). Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire. London New York (N.Y.) Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-23498-7.
^ 青井哲人「ソウル・南山の神域化－植民都市と神社境内」（明治聖徳記念学会紀要復刊第43号、2006年）
^ 「神社祭神並創立調査表」 JACAR（アジア歴史資料センター） Ref.A03010213400 （国立公文書館）
^ 内務省告示第264号官報第5660号（昭和20年11月22日） 1頁
^ 정, 용부 (2018-02-02). "[다크 헤리티지를 찾아서] 서울미래유산에 남겨진 일제 신사의 유구". The Financial News (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-03-11.

[1] Henry, Todd (2014). Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520958418.

[shimizu-2022a-2] Shimizu, Karli; Rambelli, Fabio (2022-10-06). Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire. London New York (N.Y.) Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-23498-7.

[青井2-3] 青井哲人「ソウル・南山の神域化－植民都市と神社境内」（明治聖徳記念学会紀要復刊第43号、2006年）

[4] 「神社祭神並創立調査表」 JACAR（アジア歴史資料センター） Ref.A03010213400 （国立公文書館）

[5] 内務省告示第264号官報第5660号（昭和20年11月22日） 1頁

[6] 정, 용부 (2018-02-02). "[다크 헤리티지를 찾아서] 서울미래유산에 남겨진 일제 신사의 유구". The Financial News (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-03-11.

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