Adds a milestone in Shinto history between the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America's founding in 1986 and Mount Fuji joining UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2013, both already recorded here: Emperor Akihito's Daijosai of 22 and 23 November 1990, the first performed since State Shinto's 1945 disestablishment and the subject of lawsuits over its public funding under the postwar constitution.
Source Accession to the Throne and Major State Ceremonies and Events (Imperial Household Agency)
Closes a 13 year gap since 2013's Mount Fuji Joins UNESCO's World Heritage List, the most recent event already on Shinto's map, with the most recent performance of the imperial enthronement rites.
Source Naruhito Proclaims His Enthronement in Ancient Ceremony (Reuters)Elaine Lies and Kiyoshi Takenaka
The homeland reversal that closes State Shinto's arc, four years after the tradition's existing 1941 wartime-suspicion event in America, giving the map both the American diaspora's and the homeland's own wartime-era experience side by side.
Source Shinto Directive (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Closes a two year gap since 2023's citation of the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America's relocation, moving the map from Shinto's overseas presence back to the tradition's own most sacred site beginning its next twenty year renewal.
Source Shikinen Sengu, the Largest Ritual at Ise Jingu (Visit Iseshima Bureau)
Adds a specific, dated milestone in Shinto's postwar institutional history between the Association of Shinto Shrines organizing in 1946 and Tsubaki Grand Shrine opening the first Shinto shrine on the US mainland in 1986, both already recorded here: Japan's 3 April 1951 Religious Corporations Law, giving Shinto shrines legal standing as independent religious corporations.
Source Religious Corporations Act (Law No. 126 of 1951), Japanese Law TranslationGovernment of Japan
Adds a specific, dated administrative milestone between Shinto arriving in Hawaii with Japanese immigrants in 1898 and wartime suspicion suppressing Shinto in America in 1941, both already recorded here: Japan's Home Ministry issuing its December 1906 shrine merger order, consolidating roughly seventy thousand of the country's shrines into larger regional shrines under closer state supervision by 1914.
Source Japanese Shrine Mergers, 1906-12: State Shinto Moves to the Grassroots (Monumenta Nipponica)Wilbur M. Fridell
Closes a 40-year gap since 1986's opening of the Tsubaki Grand Shrine, the first Shinto shrine on the US mainland and the most recent event already on Shinto's map, with the tradition's most prominent sacred mountain receiving the highest form of international heritage recognition.
Source Fujisan, Sacred Place and Source of Artistic Inspiration (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)
Source Overseas Shinto (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Shinto's own postwar reorganization into a nongovernmental religious body, less than a year after the disestablishment already on its map and the only event on record between that 1945 order and the 1898/1941 events concerning Shinto in the United States.
Source Association Of Shinto Shrines (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Adds a specific, dated milestone in Shinto's history between Japan enacting the Religious Corporations Law in 1951 and Tsubaki Grand Shrine opening Shinto's first shrine on the US mainland in 1986, both already recorded here: the Association of Shinto Shrines' successful fourteen year campaign to restore 11 February as National Foundation Day, enacted by the National Diet on 9 December 1966 and first observed in 1967.
Source National Holidays Overview, Kenkoku Kinen no Hi Entry (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Adds a specific, dated milestone in Shinto history between Japan's Home Ministry ordering the shrine merger policy in 1906 and wartime suspicion suppressing Shinto in America in 1941, both already recorded here: the 1925 dedication of the Chosen Jingu imperial shrine in Seoul, the central instrument of State Shinto's extension into colonial Korea.
Source The Chosen Jingu Imperial Shrine and Schools in Colonial Korea (Studies in the History of Education)Satoko Hiura
Adds a milestone in Shinto history between the Meiji government establishing State Shinto in 1868 and Japanese immigration carrying Shinto to Hawaii in 1898, both already recorded here: the Meiji Constitution's 11 February 1889 promulgation, whose Article 28 fixed shrine worship's legal status as civic duty rather than religion, binding on every subject regardless of private belief.
Source The Constitution of the Empire of Japan, 1889 (National Diet Library of Japan)
Shinto's own homeland establishment as a state institution, distinct from the tradition's existing two events, which cover only its later Hawaii diaspora and never touch Japan itself.
Source State Shinto (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Closes a 7 year gap since 2019's Emperor Naruhito Completes the Sokui no Rei and Daijosai Enthronement Rites, the most recent event already on Shinto's map, with the same shrine whose 1986 founding opened the map's own thread on the US mainland now carrying its enshrined kami across the border into Canada.
Source Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America Announces Its Move to Shin Mei Spiritual Centre
Shinto's most recent event on this atlas's map by forty years, and its first arrival on the US mainland rather than Hawaii, where the tradition's only prior American events already on this map are anchored.
Source Tsubaki Grand Shrine Of America (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Overseas Shinto (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors