A Wikipedia article on Hachiman, the syncretic Shinto and Buddhist god of war and archery, and, from the medieval period, the tutelary deity of the samurai and the Minamoto clan. The article captions a photograph of a seated wooden statue "The Shinto deity Hachiman (Kamakura period 1326) at Tokyo National Museum (Lent by Akana Hachimangu), Important Cultural Property." This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for its caption identifying the statue, its date and its lending shrine, independently corroborated by a separately authored Wikimedia Commons file description for the same photograph. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiman
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Source Hachiman (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (17 claims)
This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 9 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Groups, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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