Kokugakuin University's own Encyclopedia of Shinto entry on Jinja Goshi, the shrine merger policies carried out by Japan's central and local government between the end of the Meiji era and the start of the Taisho era, documenting the pivotal December 1906 imperial edict permitting merged shrines' land to be surrendered without compensation, the reduction of the country's roughly two hundred thousand shrines to about one hundred twenty thousand by 1914, the especially rigorous programs in Wakayama and Mie prefectures, and the intellectual and parliamentary opposition that eventually ended forcible mergers.
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Kokugakuin University's own Shinto studies encyclopedia, published on the university most closely associated with Shinto scholarship's digital museum, tier 2, used here for the December 1906 imperial edict, its compensation terms and the prefecture by prefecture scale of the shrine merger campaign, corroborated by Sophia University's Monumenta Nipponica monograph listing below. NotesUsed for the December 1906 imperial edict permitting uncompensated land surrender, the reduction to about one hundred twenty thousand shrines by 1914, and the especially rigorous Wakayama and Mie prefecture programs.
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PublisherKokugakuin University
URLhttps://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=8856
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