"The Itsukushima Shrine," Japan

Wonders of Asia, "The Itsukushima Shrine," Japan

• Shinto, the "way of the Gods," is the primordial religion of Japan, anyone who dies automatically becomes a Kami, a spirit and thereby part of the Divine nature of all things, honoring Kami is the focus of shintoism.
  
• ​The 52 ft tall gate, called a torii, stands in the bay as the entrance to the shrine. It symbolizes the imaginary border between the profane and the sacred. The Itsukushima torii is one of the emblems of Japan.​

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Important DATES to remember of "The Itsukushima Shrine", Japan part of continent Asia. 

❤️592-628-Empress Suiko's regency. It is thought that the first shrine on this site was built in 593.
❤️806-The Buddhist monk Kukai climbed Mount Misen, the highest point of the island.
❤️881-First documented evidence of the shrine.
❤️1118-1181- The reign of the warlord Taira no Kiyomari.
❤️1164- He commissioned building of the main Shinto shrine buildings, at the same time donating 33 Buddhist sutra scrolls to the monks on the island.
❤️1207 and 1223-The complex was destroyed by fire.
❤️1325- A typhoon heavily damaged the buildings.
❤️1571-The complex reached its current form.
❤️1874-1875- The great torii was rebuilt.
​❤️1996-The shrine was named a World Cultural Monument by UNESCO

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