Shrines of Iki

Readings are romanised from the reading recorded in our ledger. The rank and district are those given in the register. Which shrine of today each seat corresponds to has been argued over since the Edo period, so each seat has its own page setting out what the sources say — in Japanese.

Each of these is a single Japanese page. Counts come from our ledgers, so they move when a ledger does.

• Shrines on the map (Japanese) 238 shrines — where they are, which area, the month of the annual festival
• Shrines by their Meiji rank (Japanese) 173 shrines, from the front matter of Iki no Kuni Jinja Shi (壱岐国神社誌), 1941 (Shōwa 16)
• Annual festivals by month (Japanese) 110 shrines whose festival day the 1941 record gives
• Shrines by the deity enshrined (Japanese) 39 deities, 21 of them with a page of their own
• A chronology of the island's shrines (Japanese) 135 dated entries drawn from 4 books
• Keep a record of the shrines you visit (Japanese) Kept in your own browser. No sign-in.

A record of the island's shrines compiled in 1941 (Shōwa 16) opens with a list of every shrine, each under the rank recorded for it. The rank names are romanised, not translated — an English word for them would be our reading of the system rather than its name. The list arranges the shrines under 13 town and village divisions of the time; those division names are in Japanese only, because our ledger does not record how to read them.

• Mukakusha (無格社) 136
• Sonsha (村社) 33
• Gōsha (郷社) 3
• Kokuhei Chūsha (国幣中社) 1

Our notes on each shrine, written from the same 1941 (Shōwa 16) record, name the deity or deities that shrine enshrines. Reading those back gives 39 deities, listed here with the number of shrines that enshrine each. Readings are romanised from the reading recorded in our ledger; where we hold no reading, the name stays in Japanese. A shrine may enshrine more than one deity, so these numbers do not add up to a count of shrines. Where the record calls a deity by another name, we have left it as a separate entry rather than judging the two to be one.

The 1941 (Shōwa 16) record gives a festival day for 110 of the 119 shrines it describes; for 9 it gives none. Below is how those 110 fall across the year.

• February 3
• March 5
• April 4
• May 1
• June 3
• July 3
• August 2
• September 21
• October 35
• November 27
• December 6

Of those 110, 101 keep the day by the modern calendar, and 9 keep the day by the old lunisolar calendar. A day kept by the older calendar moves against the months shown here.

Dated statements pulled out of the records and set in order, from 630 to 1902. Each entry names the book the dated statement was transcribed from. Where two books give different years for the same event, the Japanese page sets the disagreement out rather than choosing — there is 1 such case.

• Iki no Kuni Jinja Shi (壱岐国神社誌), 1941 (Shōwa 16) 68
  Cited by 68 of the 135 entries.
• Iki Meishō Zushi (壱岐名勝図誌), 1861 (Bunkyū 1) 50
  Cited by 50 of the 135 entries.
• Nagasaki-ken Iki Ishida-gun Mura Yōran (長崎県壱岐石田郡村要覧), 1894 (Meiji 27) 29
  Cited by 29 of the 135 entries.
• Iki Jinja Shi (壱岐神社誌), 1926 (Taishō 15) 14
  Cited by 14 of the 135 entries.

Where a record has something to say about a particular shrine, we have put it into modern Japanese and attached it to that shrine's page. These describe the island as it was when the record was written, not as it is now.

• Notes on individual shrines 119
  Shown on each shrine's own page. From Iki no Kuni Jinja Shi (壱岐国神社誌), 1941 (Shōwa 16); Nagasaki-ken Iki Ishida-gun Mura Yōran (長崎県壱岐石田郡村要覧), 1894 (Meiji 27).
• Extra notes on the seats 13
  Shown on the seat pages. From Iki Meishō Zushi (壱岐名勝図誌), 1861 (Bunkyū 1).
• Notes taken from the 1861 gazetteer 24
  Shown on each shrine's own page. From Iki Meishō Zushi (壱岐名勝図誌), 1861 (Bunkyū 1).
• Notes taken from the 1926 shrine record 47
  Shown on each shrine's own page. From Iki Jinja Shi (壱岐神社誌), 1926 (Taishō 15).

51 longer pieces have been written out of the same records. What they are, in English.