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Atsuta Jingu (official shrine website)

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Atsuta Jingu's official website is the shrine's own account of itself, one of Shinto's most important sanctuaries, traditionally said to enshrine the sacred sword Kusanagi no Tsurugi, one of the three imperial regalia of Japan. Its strength is direct custodial authority, nobody is better positioned to state the shrine's own ritual calendar, structures and current practice than the institution itself, and a shrine of this standing maintains the page as an accurate public record rather than casual promotional copy. Its limit is that the sword itself has never been examined or photographed by an outside party in the modern era, so the shrine's account of its presence and identity rests on unbroken tradition rather than independent verification, and a claim treating the sword's continuous physical presence as historically documented fact rather than the shrine's own maintained belief needs a source that engages that gap directly, since this page does not.

Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
Atsuta Jingu's own official website is treated at the top tier as the shrine's direct custodial source for its own ritual calendar, structures and current practice, notwithstanding that the sacred sword's own continuous presence rests on unbroken tradition rather than independent outside verification, which the page itself does not claim to supply.
Notes
Atsuta Jingu's own official shrine website; a religious institution's self-account, not an independent scholarly history.
Custodian
Custodian Source
Yes
Custodian Body
Atsuta Jingu (Atsuta Shrine), Nagoya
Custodian Basis
The shrine is the custodian institution that enshrines and safeguards the sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi as the body of its deity on behalf of the Japanese Imperial household.
Citation
Publisher
Atsuta Jingu
URL
https://www.atsutajingu.or.jp/en/
Source Type
custodian
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Japan, Countries

This source names Japan directly: "one of the three imperial regalia of Japan."

Source Atsuta Jingu (official shrine website)the holders' own account
Claims Backed By This Source (18 claims)

This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 10 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Sacred Sites, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
  • Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
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