Osaka

Osaka grew up as a merchant city, and its shrines grew up with the trade and with the sea it depended on. The places here run from the harbour shrine at Sumiyoshi to the Ebisu shrines of the market streets.

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Sumiyoshi Taisha
Shrine · Osaka
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- Purification
Head shrine of Japan’s twenty-three hundred Sumiyoshi shrines, guardian of voyages since the envoys to Sui and Tang, and ancestral deity of purification.

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