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- In Shinto shrine architecture, the honden (本殿, main hall), also called shinden (神殿), or sometimes shōden (昇殿) as in Ise Shrine's case, is the most sacred...
- the Shinto religion. The main hall (本殿, honden) is where a shrine's patron kami is or are enshrined. The honden may be absent in cases where a shrine stands...
- variable, and none of its possible features are necessarily present. Even the honden or sanctuary, the part which houses the kami and which is the centerpiece...
- Important Cultural Property. front view of the honden detail of the honden interior of the honden and haiden the honden seen from the viewing platform A karamon...
- shrine's main sanctuary (honden) and often built on a larger scale than the latter. The haiden is often connected to the honden by a heiden, or hall of...
- Motonari, lord of Chōshū Domain, who was responsible for rebuilding the honden in 1571. As a result of waging war against Sue Takafusa there in 1555, Motonari...
- on April 10, 1616, during their Pacific journey. They called this atoll "Honden Eiland" ("Dog Island"). On 30 July 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his six-man...
- one before trial so they were never convicted. Another memorial at the honden (main hall) building commemorates anyone who died on behalf of ****an and...
- of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. In 1651 the honden of the shrine was rebuilt in the gongen-zukuri style by Tokugawa Iemitsu...
- on the roof of a very large honden (sanctuary). The gables are set at a right angle to the main roof ridge, and the honden is part of a single complex...