Kunitama Okami
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Okunitama is a type of provincial tutelary deity in shinto Ōkuninushi os called by the epithet Okunitama no Kami in Tokyo
Yamato Okunitama is the Kunitama of Yamato Province
It was intended as a means of making Shinto an international religion within the Japanese colonial empire.[1] Some people identified Dangun with Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the government not wanting to take a stand on this enshrined the generic Okunitama at Chōsen Jingu so believers could have their own interpretations.[1] was a strong advocate of these positions and his advocacy was associated with the enshrinement of Okunitama at both Chōsen Jingu, and
An ethnic korean group proposed to take over Okunitama worship after the war but was denied.
Ogasawara also proposed a system where Japanese people in the colonies were seen as Amatsukami and natives were seen as Kunitsukami.
State authorities at Chōsen Jingu however never allowed for Okunitama to be called "Chosen Okunitama" and indigenous Dangun traditions were suppressed in favor of worshipping Amaterasu in the shrine.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kōji, Suga; 𨀉𠄈 (2010). "A Concept of "Overseas Shinto Shrines": A Pantheistic Attempt by Ogasawara Shōzō and Its Limitations". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 37 (1): 47–74. ISSN 0304-1042.
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