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2007/2/7

春日大社(世界遺産) Kasuga-taisha Kasuga-taisha Shrine

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Kasuga-taisha Shrine, or Kasuga Grand Shrine, is located inside Nara Park in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. It was formerly known as Kasuga-jinjya, or Kasuga Shrine. Its history dates back 1300 years to Fujiwara Fuhito who founded the shrine as a place to enshrine the Fujiwara clan’s deity.  This followed the relocation of the capital to Heijyoukyou in the Nara period. In 768, the shrine was moved to its present site. As the prosperity of the Fujiwara clan grew, so did the shrine and more buildings were gradually added. By the late Heian period, the shrine complex had already expanded to the scale that is seen today. Since the medieval period, reverence for the Kasuga-taisha Shrine spread among commoners who, over the years, donated stone lanterns which still line the shrine’s entrance path. On February 3rd (Setsubun) and August 14th and 15th  (Obon) every year, the Mantourou Lantern Festival is held and 3,000 of the lanterns in the shrine are lit, enchanting visitors with the fantastic display of light. Kasuga-taisha Shrine is designated as a World Heritage Site and is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara.

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160 Kasugano-cho, Nara, Nara Prefecture, 630-8212
name
Kasuga-taisha Shrine
phone
0742-22-7788
hp
http://www.naranet.co.jp/kasugataisha/




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