Origin from 2023
In 2023, Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, the first Shinto shrine built on the US mainland after the Second World War, relocated its enshrined kami, Sarutahiko no Okami, Ame no Uzume no Mikoto and three further deities, from its longtime home in Granite Falls, Washington, to Shin Mei Spiritual Centre on Knapp Island, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, the North American branch shrine of Tsubaki Grand Shrine near Suzuka, Japan. A ceremony carried the Gosaijin, the enshrined spirits, to the new site, and the shrine took the name Tsubaki Dai Jinja North America, known in Japanese as Hoku Bei Tsubaki Dai Jinja, under Guji Ann Evans, whose norito translations are already used across the western Shinto community.
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StatusArrived marks the shrine's own move of its enshrined kami and its Guji's continuing ministry from the United States into Canada, not a claim about its membership numbers or about any continued presence at the former Washington site, which the shrine's own current site says has fully transferred to the new location. In Other Languages (9 names)
- مزار تسوباكي الكبير في أمريكا
- Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America
- Gran Santuario Tsubaki de América
- معبد بزرگ تسوباکی آمریکا
- Tsubaki Ōkamiyashiro d'Amérique
- Kuil Agung Tsubaki Amerika
- Grande Santuario Americano di Tsubaki
- アメリカ椿大神社
- 아메리카 쓰바키 신사
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This source names Ame-no-Uzume directly: "In 2023, Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, the first Shinto shrine built on the US mainland after the Second World War, relocated its enshrined kami, Sarutahiko no Okami, Ame no Uzume no Mikoto and..."
This source names Ame-no-Uzume directly: "In 2023, Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, the first Shinto shrine built on the US mainland after the Second World War, relocated its enshrined kami, Sarutahiko no Okami, Ame no Uzume no Mikoto and..."
This source names Americas directly: "In 2023, Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, the first Shinto shrine built on the US mainland after the Second World War, relocated its enshrined kami, Sarutahiko no Okami, Ame no Uzume no Mikoto and..."
This source names Sarutahiko directly: "War, relocated its enshrined kami, Sarutahiko no Okami, Ame no Uzume no Mikoto and three further deities, from its longtime home in Granite Falls, Washington, to Shin Mei Spiritual Centre on Knapp..."
This source names Sarutahiko directly: "War, relocated its enshrined kami, Sarutahiko no Okami, Ame no Uzume no Mikoto and three further deities, from its longtime home in Granite Falls, Washington, to Shin Mei Spiritual Centre on Knapp..."
This source names Washington directly: "its longtime home in Granite Falls, Washington, to Shin Mei Spiritual Centre on Knapp Island, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, the North American branch shrine of Tsubaki Grand Shrine near..."
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Closes a 7 year gap since 2019's Emperor Naruhito Completes the Sokui no Rei and Daijosai Enthronement Rites, the most recent event already on Shinto's map, with the same shrine whose 1986 founding opened the map's own thread on the US mainland now carrying its enshrined kami across the border into Canada.
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