ohoya-shiro

Updated: May 18, 2025

Now just as among the Greeks and Latins the family cult always continued to exist through all the development and expansion of the public religion, so the Shinto family worship has continued concomitantly with the communal worship at the countless ujigami, with popular worship at the famed Ohoya-shiro of various provinces or districts, and with national worship at the great shrines of Ise and Kitzuki.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : Second Series