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カテゴリー1： 3. Institutions and Administrative Practices
カテゴリー2： Modern and Contemporary
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Sonsha
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Village shrines. A category of shrines stipulated under the shrine system established in the Meiji era. The broad categorization was between official shrines (kansha) and other shrines (shosha), and village shrines fell into the latter category, ranked below gōsha (district shrines). In the gōsha teisoku (Regulations for Rural District Shrines) of 1871, village shrines were defined as subordinate to gōsha, but gradually thereafter they came to be recognized as an independent shrine rank. Generally, shrines dedicated to the village ujigami (tutelary deity) were those stipulated as sonsha. At the end of the Pacific War, there were forty-four thousand nine hundred thirty-four sonsha; there were more of these than any other category bar those shrines of no rank (mukakusha). About one third of these sonsha were in receipt of public funds for offerings on the occasion of kinensai, the Niinamesai and the shrine's own annual rites (reisai). After the war, in 1946, the shrine system was abolished, and the label of village shrine ceased to have official value.
See Modern shrine ranking system , Gōsha , Mukakusha
— Inoue Nobutaka

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