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Association of Shinto Shrines
Summary
The Association of Shinto Shrines is a religious administrative organisation that oversees about 80,000 Shinto shrines in Japan. These shrines take the Ise Grand Shrine as the foundation of their belief. It is the largest Shrine Shinto organization in existence.
The association has five major activities, in addition to numerous others:
Publication and dissemination of information on Shrine Shinto
The performance of rituals;
Education of adherents to Shinto;
Reverence of Ise Grand Shrine and the distribution of its amulets called Jingū Taima (神宮大麻); and
Preparation and training of individuals for the Shinto priesthood.
It currently has an administrative structure including a main office and branches. Its headquarters in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, adjacent to Meiji Shrine. Its leadership includes the Sosai, the head priestess of the Ise Shrine, presently Sayako Kuroda. The tōri is Kuniaki Kuni, and the post of sōchō or Secretary-General is currently held by Masami Yatabe, the chief priest of the Mishima Shrine. The association maintains regional offices in every prefecture. They handle financial and personnel matters for member shrines.
The Association of Shinto Shrines is the largest Shinto religious group in Japan, and more than 79,000 of the approximately 80,000 Japanese shrines, including major ones, are members. Each prefecture has a shrine office . It is the successor to the Institute of Divinities, which was an external agency of the Home Ministry, and is a comprehensive religious corporation based on the Religious Corporation Law.
In Article 3 of the "Regulations of the Religious Corporation 'Jinja Honcho' Agency," the regulations of the Agency as a religious corporation, the purpose of the Agency is to manage and guide shrines under its jurisdiction, promote Shinto, perform shrine rituals, educate and foster believers (Ujiko), support Ise Shrine, the head shrine, train priests, and conduct public relations through the publication and distribution of pamphlets, among other activities.
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