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カテゴリー1： 4. Jinja (Shrines)
カテゴリー2： Shrine Architecture
Title
Teinaisha
Text [Teinai sha]
A small shrine located within a private residential compound. Also sometimes called a teinai shinshi. Some such shrines originated from the belief that a local kami already dwelled in the area before the building of the home, while others were especially dedicated to the "apportioned spirit" (bunrei) of the extended family's ancestral kami, or another kami specially revered by the family. A famous example of the latter type would be Taira no Kiyomori's dedication to the Itsukushima Shrine's central deity (saijin) in an auxiliary shrine (betsugū) built within the Taira's Rokuhara estate in Kyoto. Kami thus enshrined in teinaisha subsequently came to be revered as local tutelaries. The majority of such examples are Inari shrines. Such private residential shrines were not normally given official ranks under the Meiji-period system of shrine rankings (shakaku seido). Today, one may find so-called "corporation shrines" (kigyō no jinja) on the grounds or within corporations and factories dedicated to prayers for corporate prosperity and employee safety. Such shrines can be broadly considered as falling in the category of teinaisha. Further, in cases where the worship of such shrines is open to neighboring residents as well, the shrine may develop into the status of a local neighborhood tutelary or a cultic center with a broader clientele (one example is the shrine Suitengū in Tokyo). See also yashikigami.
— Inoue Nobutaka

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