World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
Inscribed: 1996
Components
Main data
- Name of Property
- Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
- Components
- Itsukushima-jinja、Itsukushima
- Place
- Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture
- Tentative List Submission
- Tentative List Submission: 1992
- Nommination
- Nommination: Sep/1995
- Inscribed
- Inscribed: Dec/1996
- Criteria
- (ⅰ)(ⅱ)(ⅳ)(ⅵ)
- Municipality
- Hiroshima Prefecture Board of Education
- Municipality Website
- http://www.en.itsukushimajinja.jp/index.html
(Itsukushima-jinja) - UNESCO Website
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/776
- Photo
- Hiroshima Prefecture Board of Education
Related Resources
Explanation
The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present shrine dates from the 12th century and the harmoniously arranged buildings reveal great artistic and technical skill. The shrine plays on the contrasts in colour and form between mountains and sea and illustrates the Japanese concept of scenic beauty, which combines nature and human creativity.