Yamanashi Gokoku Shrine
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Yamanashi Gokoku Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Japan.[1] It is a Gokoku Shrine, or a shrine dedicated to war dead.[2] It is located 600 meters east of Takeda Shrine.[2]
It was founded in 1879[2].
It enshrines 25,062 fallen soldiers from the First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and World War II.[2]Gokoku shrines were made to serve to enshrine the war dead, and they were all considered "branches" of Yasukuni Shrine..[3]
References
- ↑ "Yamanashi Gokoku Shrine - Kōfu". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Yamanashi Gokoku-jinja Shrine｜Chichibu Okan > Tracing the major sites on Chichibu Okan Road | Yamanashi Historical road Tourism". rekishinomichi-yamanashi.jp. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
- ↑ TAKAYAMA, K. PETER (1990). "Enshrinement and Persistency of Japanese Religion". Journal of Church and State. 32 (3): 527–547. ISSN 0021-969X.
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