沖縄県 · Shrines & temples
Sefa-utaki
南城市 本島南部
The centre of belief in Okinawa is neither shrine nor temple but the utaki: a place with no building, where a forest or a rock itself is worshipped. T…
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沖縄県 · Shrines & temples
Naminouegu
那覇市 本島南部
It stands on a cliff, so that worship faces out towards the paradise held to lie beyond the sea.
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Sonohyan-utaki Ishimon
那覇市 本島南部
A stone gate beside Shuri Castle, and a National Treasure. Here the king prayed for safety when leaving the castle. Beyond the gate is an utaki, and t…
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Kudakajima
南城市 本島南部
The island where the gods who created Ryukyu are said to have come down. It lies in view from Sefa Utaki, and the whole island is held to be sacred.
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Futenmagu
宜野湾市 本島中部
A limestone cave lies behind the hall, and the cave itself is the object of worship. It takes the form of a shrine, but what is inside is the faith of…
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Sanguui
南城市 本島南部
A triangular space where two great rocks lean together. Kudakajima can be seen from within.
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Okinogu
那覇市 本島南部
It originally stood at Naha port. One of the eight shrines of Ryukyu.
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Okinawa Gokoku Jinja
那覇市 本島南部
It adjoins Naminoue-gu.
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Shirumichu
うるま市 本島中部
The cave where the ancestors of Ryukyu are said to have lived. A faith for conceiving a child.
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Harimizu Utaki
宮古島市 宮古
The site of the creation myth of Miyakojima, and held to be the most important utaki on the island.
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Torinji
石垣市 八重山
The oldest temple in the Yaeyama Islands. Its Nio figures were swept away by a tsunami and are said to have come back from the sea.
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Tindahanata
与那国町 八重山
The westernmost island in Japan. A clifftop lookout that was a place of prayer from ancient times.
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Naminoue
那覇市 本島南部
It stands on a Ryukyu limestone cliff jutting into the sea, facing the other world beyond the water.
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Sueyoshigu
那覇市 本島南部
It stands at the end of a stone stairway through the forest. A stone ramp of a form peculiar to Ryukyu survives.
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Shikinagu
那覇市 本島南部
Its deity was originally a cave. One of the eight shrines of Ryukyu.
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Asato Hachimangu
那覇市 本島南部
The only Hachimangu among the eight shrines of Ryukyu.
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Enkakuji
那覇市 本島南部
The funerary temples of the Ryukyu royal house. They were lost in the Battle of Okinawa, and the Hojo bridge and other remains survive.
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Gokokuji (Naha)
那覇市 本島南部
Held to be the oldest temple in Okinawa. Bettelheim stayed here.
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Kin Kannonji
金武町 本島中部
It stands above a limestone cave, where awamori is laid down to age.
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Futenma Cave
宜野湾市 本島中部
A limestone cave 280 metres long. You enter from behind the hall.
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Hakusui Utaki
八重瀬町 本島南部
An utaki that guards the village's water source.
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Chinen Ukka
南城市 本島南部
A spring carrying the tradition of the beginning of rice growing. A sacred place recorded in the Ryukyu-koku Yuraiki.
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Tojinbaka
石垣市 八重山
A memorial to shipwrecked Chinese labourers. A shrine in brilliant colour.
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Ogamijima
宮古島市 宮古
The whole island is held sacred, and many places remain closed to entry.
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