The shrine's annual spring and autumn festivals reenact these occasions, and are known as " processions of a thousand warriors.

A Chinese warrior impersonates the city spirit in the annual parade celebrating the Chinese lunar date of the shrine's dedication.

Kawase matsuri is Chichibu shrine's summer festival.

In the Edo period, the shrine's festival was one of the three most famous in the city.

The jinja name identifies the clustered kami or deities who are venerated at the Kamo Shrine ; and the name refers to the ambit of shrine's encircling woods.

Taira no Kiyomori realized the shrine's importance and donated funds for a new complex of buildings and sutra scrolls.

The shrine's importance and influence grew in succeeding centuries ; and its extensive landholdings led to modest conflicts with Minamoto no Yoritomo during the years in which the Kamakura shogunate was establishing itself.

The stable of the shrine's sacred horses bears a carving of the three wise monkeys, who hear, speak and see no evil, a traditional symbol in Chinese and Japanese culture.

The presence of copper rosettes indicate that a funeral pall was draped on a frame associated with the shrine, also comparable to Tutankhamun's shrines .< ref name =" bell p. 129 "> Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 129 </ ref > However, the decoration and inscriptions on the shrine are markedly different from those of Tutankhamun: the decoration was dominated by large offering scenes rather than a multitude of smaller mythological scenes ; the text was far more brief, and seems primarily concerned with titles, names, and the shrine's dedication, rather than with excerpts from funerary books ; and the interior of the shrine was uninscribed and undecorated .< ref > Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 120, 129 </ ref >

One of them, called the ' Pavilion ', is derivative of a Shinto shrine's main hall.

In the center of the shrine's courtyard is the grave where Habakkuk is said to be buried.

Even today the Kashima Shrine training hall attracts Kendō practitioners from around the world, and the chief object of interest for visitors is the shrine's sacred sword.

Whereas a shrine's main building area is usually approached over flat ground or by an ascent, Nukisaki Shrine is entered via a descending flight of stone steps.

Another one of the shrine's highlight is the process of " The Way of the Cross " behind the church, in pilgrims begin the trek that ultimately leads to Calvary Hill.

The shrine's Bunkaden, or treasure hall, houses over 4, 000 relics, which include 174 Important Cultural Properties and a dagger that is a designated National Treasure of Japan.

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The leaders ( Exarches / Phoenix Lord ) of the aspect known as the Dire Avengers even wear Sashimonos ( suspended flags worn on the soldier's back ) decorated with their particular shrine's emblem and colors.

) Many Buddhist temples include one or more Shinto shrines dedicated to their tutelary kami, and in that case a torii marks the shrine's entrance.

It was the subject of the film The Washing of Tears, directed by Hugh Brody, which recounts the rediscovery of the bones and other artifacts at the museum and the travels of the Mowachaht people, the shrine's original owners, in seeking to repossess them.

Akhenaten's likeness was chiseled off of the shrine's carved relief.

The shrine's precise location on Mount Carmel was designated by Bahá ' u ' lláh himself and the Báb's remains were laid to rest on March 21, 1909 in a six-room mausoleum made of local stone.

The shrine's signature red entrance gate, or torii, was built over the water for much the same reason.

Image: Itsukushima torii angle. jpg | A close-up of the shrine's torii

Image: Sake barrels. jpg | Barrels of sake in one of the shrine's " floating " buildings

Image: Itsukshima Shrine. JPG | The shrine's halls and pathways on stilts.

However there are some complaints in the national newspapers i. e. The Post and The Nation that drug-runners use the shrine's Sama Hall for selling drugs to the youth on pretext to listen Dohol.

The shrine's Heian period connections with the Kyoto and the Imperial family date from its founding in 859 ( Jōgan 1 ) when construction on its earliest structures commenced.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

Van Mahotsav is an annual pan-Indian tree planting festival, occupying a week in the month of July. During this event millions of trees are planted.

The perseverance of the Pilgrims is celebrated during the annual Thanksgiving festival.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

They perform at both military and civilian airfields, and often perform directly over major cities such as San Francisco's " Fleet Week " maritime festival, Cleveland's annual Labor Day Air Show, the Chicago Air and Water Show, and Seattle's annual Seafair festival.

The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

The annual summer festival, the Taste of Chicago in Grant Park, highlights food in the city with many local restaurants taking part.

Begun by Spencer in 1814, the annual gathering of the Big August Quarterly still draws people together in a religious and cultural festival, the oldest such cultural festival in the nation.

Another regular Delphi festival was the " Theophania " ( Θεοφάνεια ), an annual festival in spring celebrating the return of Apollo from his winter quarters in Hyperborea.

Taking in Europe and North America, the tour opened at London's annual Meltdown festival, for which Bowie was that year appointed artistic director.

Evidence for another kind of annual Christian festival, the commemoration of martyrs, begins to appear at about the same time as evidence for the celebration of Easter.

* Ellensburg hosts the annual Jazz in the Valley music festival on the last weekend in July.

Chinese dragon kite more than one hundred feet long which flew in the annual Berkeley, California, kite festival in 2000.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

Brian Ritchie curates the annual international arts festival MONA FOMA, held in Hobart.

MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art opened in 2011 to coincide with the third annual MONA FOMA festival.