01 ／ Kanasana Shrine
Behind the worship hall, no main hall.The mountain itself is worshipped.
Kanasana Shrine (金鑚神社), the second shrine of Musashi Province, has no main sanctuary behind its worship hall; instead it venerates the whole of Mount Mimuro (御室ヶ嶽) as the deity's body, an old form of worship rare anywhere in Japan. In the grounds stands a tahōtō pagoda built by Abo Zenryū in 1534, an Important Cultural Property, and halfway up Mount Mitake behind it is the Kagami-iwa (鏡岩, "Mirror Rock"), a fault surface polished like a mirror.
- No main sanctuary
- Second shrine of Musashi
- Tahōtō pagoda, 1534 (Important Cultural Property)
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