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- gable roof. On the gable-end or the front side of the honden is the entrance and stairway, called tsuma-iri, or gable entrance. Because of a central pillar, the entrance must be narrow and placed off centre. The gable roof of the entrance has a separate roof which is not connected to the main gable roof of the honden. The Shinto shrine in Victoria differs from the Taisha style in that its gable-roof entrance is proportionally quite wide and located directly in front of the main building on a central axis. This particular feature reflects the style of the Kasuga shrine-type, which is similarly shaped with a wide-roofed entrance and stairway in the centre of the gable-end. However, what differentiates the Victoria Shinto shrine from the Kasuga shrine type is that it has a gabled roof over the entrance and stairway, whereas the latter has a single sloping or slanting roof resembling the peak of a cap. The Victoria shrine also shows the same structural roof features as the Otori shrine in that it has two gable roofs on a central axis, but it has a very narrow body with no partition in the main building, less expansive gable-roofs and a small balcony around the main building. In short, the Shinto shrine in Victoria combines architectural aspects from the Taisha-, Kasuga- and Otori-type shrines. Both the Kasuga and Otori styles are advanced developments of the Taisha style.
As mentioned above, the entrenchment of Buddhism in Japan nurtured the spread of Ryobu Shinto with its doctrine that the various kami of Shinto were incarnations of Buddhist deities. As a result, many techniques of construction, decoration and even iconography became common to Shinto and Buddhist imagery and buildings. For example, many Shinto shrines display elements of
The last Shinto ceremony before shrine is moved down the mountain in 1983.
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