Keijō Shrine
Part of the shrine complex
Religion
AffiliationShinto
DeityAmaterasu, Three Pioneer Kami (開拓三神, Kaitaku Sanjin) Ōkunitama, Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona, Dangun?
Location
MunicipalityKeijō
CountryChōsen
Geographic coordinates37°33′25″N 126°59′11″E / 37.5569°N 126.9864°E / 37.5569; 126.9864
Architecture
Date establishedNovember 3, 1898 (1898-11-03)
DestroyedNovember 17, 1945 (1945-11-17)
Location relative to present-day Seoul
Glossary of Shinto

Keijō Shrine (京城神社, Keijō-jinja, Korean: 경성신사), sometimes Seoul Shrine,[1]: 65 [2]: 139  was a Shinto shrine in Keijō (Seoul), Korea, Empire of Japan. The shrine was established on November 3, 1898,[3][4] and destroyed on November 17, 1945, several months after the end of colonial rule.[5]

The shrine was located to the north of the mountain Namsan.

Theological history

Initially the shrine only worshipped Amaterasu but it later added the Three Pioneer Kami (開拓三神, Kaitaku Sanjin) Ōkunitama, Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona used in Japanese colonial shrines. after it was established that it wouild not become the Chosen Jingu.[2]: 140 

Uniquely it referred to Kunitama as Chosen Kunitama suggesting a distinctly Korean flavor, as this shrine attempted to integrate many Korean customs.[2]: 140  Many locals identified "Chosen Kunitama" with Dangun.[2]: 140 

In 1936 the government released a memo saying that Okunitama was in fact a generic title for any Korean deity and not Dangun. The name was also changed to Kunitama-no-Okami as a parallel to Amaterasu Omikami[2]: 140 

References

  1. ↑ Henry, Todd (2014). Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520958418.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Shimizu, Karli; Rambelli, Fabio (2022-10-06). Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire. London New York (N.Y.) Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-23498-7.
  3. ↑ 青井哲人「ソウル・南山の神域化－植民都市と神社境内」（明治聖徳記念学会紀要復刊第43号、2006年）
  4. ↑ 「神社祭神並創立調査表」 JACAR（アジア歴史資料センター） Ref.A03010213400 （国立公文書館）
  5. ↑ 内務省告示第264号 官報第5660号（昭和20年11月22日） 1頁
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