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A form of elementary, perhaps prototypical, shrine or shintai comprising an unpolluted space marked out by stakes and shimenawa or surrounded by evergreens, with a sacred sakaki tree at the centre as the "seat" of the kami. Nowadays the sakaki branches may be arranged on an eight-legged table (hassokuan) hung with shide to represent the shintai There are numerous suggested etymologies for himorogi; the term may refer equally to the "tree" or to the marked space. See also Iwasaka, Jinja, Torii A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Brian Bocking) |
