Suwa Taisha
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Suwa taisha (諏訪大社?), or Suwa Grand Shrine, is a Shinto shrine in Nagano prefecture, Japan. Over 1200 years old, it is one of the oldest shrines in existence, and is mentioned in the Kojiki, an 8th-century text. It consists of four building complexes, the Maemiya (前宮 lit. old shrine?), the Honmiya (本宮 main shrine?), the Harumiya (春宮 spring shrine?), and the Akimiya (秋宮 autumn shrine?).
Like others among Japan's oldest shrines, Suwa Taisha does not have a honden, the building that normally enshrines a shrine's kami. This is because its objects of worship (shintai) are the mountain the shrine stands on (at the Kamisha) and a shinboku (神木 divine tree?) (at the Shimosha).
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