Karafuto Shrine

Japanese: 樺太神社 - からふとじんじゃ

A shrine located in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin. It was one of the shrines established under State Shinto in Hokkaido, Karafuto, Korea, Taiwan, and other places. When the southern half of Sakhalin came under Japanese control as a result of the Russo-Japanese War, the government decided to establish a shrine in Toyohara City, where the Karafuto Prefectural Government was located, to pray for the protection of the north and for the management of the country, as in the Sapporo Shrine (Hokkaido Shrine) that had been established earlier, to enshrine the deities Okunitama, Onamuchi, and Sukunabikona. In 1910, the new shrine was listed as a Kanpei Taisha (Great Shrine of the Imperial Court), and the following year, an imperial envoy traveled to Toyohara bearing the spirit of the enshrined deity, and a ceremony to enshrine it was held.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

サハリン，ユジノ･サハリンスクにあった神社。国家神道のもとで，北海道，樺太，朝鮮，台湾など各地に創建された神社の一つ。日露戦争の結果，サハリンの南半が日本の領有になると，政府は北方の鎮護と国土経営の祈願のために，さきに置かれた札幌神社(北海道神宮)と同じく，大国魂命，大己貴（おおなむち）命，少彦名（すくなびこな）命を祭神とする神社を，樺太庁が置かれた豊原市に創建することを決めた。1910年，新しい神社は官幣大社に列せられることとなり，翌年勅使が祭神の霊代を奉じて豊原に赴き，鎮座祭が行われた。

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