Engishiki Jinmyocho

The Engishiki Jinmyocho is a historical list of Shinto shrines.

The text from Volume 9 of the "Engishiki" can be found in the Complete Works of Japanese Classics.

It was written in the Heian period and is the source of the designation of shrines as Myojin Taisha.

It is a section of the Engishiki

Shrine categorizations

Many categorizations of shrines come from this book:

• Kokushi genzaisha ones in the Rikkokushi but not the Engishiki
• Myojin Taisha ones listed as especially significant
• Shikinai Taisha another class
• Shikigeisha ones that were ignored by both the Engishiki Jinmyocho and the Rikkokushi

Related pages

• Meishin Taisha Shrine
• Beppyo Shrine
• modern shrine ranking system
• Twenty-two companies
• Chokusaisha