Ōmiwa jinja大神神社 - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
, also known as , is a Shinto shrine located in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1964). Visiting Famous Shrines in Japan, pp. 252-286. The shrine is noted because it contains no sacred images or objects because it is believed to serve Mount Miwa, the mountain on which it stands. Ōmiwa Shrine site For the same reason, it has a , but no . In this sense, it is a model of what the first Shinto shrines were like.Tamura, page 21 Ōmiwa Shrine is one of the oldest extant Shinto shrines in Japan and the site has been sacred ground for some of the earliest religious practices in Japan. Because of this, it has sometimes been named as Japan's first shrine. Ōmiwa Shrine is a tutelary shrine of the Japanese sake brewers. Read more on Wikipedia
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